Hazard Precaution : Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of
Ritualized Behavior

C 2023

Hazard Precaution : Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior

LANG, Martin and Radim CHVAJA

Basic information

Original name

Hazard Precaution : Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior

Authors

LANG, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Radim CHVAJA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

New York, NY, The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, p. 164-184, 21 pp. Routledge Handbooks in Religion, 2023

Publisher

Routledge

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Chapter(s) of a specialized book

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130089

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-1-138-33167-9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4324/b23047-14

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85143479525

Keywords in English

anxiety; ritual; predictive processing; Bayesian brain; ritualization

Abstract

In the original language

The near omnipresence of religious systems across the globe and throughout human history has led researchers to hypothesize that religious systems fulfil important adaptive functions in their specific niches (Lang & Kundt, 2020; Sosis, 2017, 2019).1 Two functions have been of particular interest: promoting group coordination and cooperation and promoting positive effects on individual health and survival while a third major function of religious systems, promotion of reproduction, gradually gains attention (see Van Slyke, ch. 7 this volume; Shaver et al., 2020). Alongside beliefs in various superhuman agents and other components of religious systems, a major role in facilitating these functions appears to be played by ritual behavior, both in its individual and group forms (Purzycki & Arakchaa, 2013; Sosis, 2004; Xygalatas et al., 2019, 2013). In this chapter, we examine whether ritual behavior, in interaction with other evolved cognitive- behavioral systems, positively affects one of the three main outputs of religious systems— the promotion of individual health and survival— and speculate about ritual’s tentative adaptive value.

Links

EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project

Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Cite

LANG, Martin and Radim CHVAJA. Hazard Precaution : Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior. In Lior, Yair; Lane, Justin E. The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023, p. 164-184. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. ISBN 978-1-138-33167-9. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/b23047-14.

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LANG, Martin and Radim CHVAJA. Hazard Precaution : Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior. In Lior, Yair; Lane, Justin E. \textit{The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion}. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023, p.~164-184. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. ISBN~978-1-138-33167-9. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/b23047-14.

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