Ritual, Extended Mind, and Overimitation: Towards a Naturalistic Cognitive Theory of Ritual Transmission

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čeština

Original language name

Ritual, Extended Mind, and Overimitation: Towards a Naturalistic Cognitive Theory of Ritual Transmission

Original language description

This paper will concentrate on cognitive theories of ritual and models of its transmission in the cultural evolutionary framework. It will be argued that this type of theorizing is important for explaining historical mutations of rituals in particular populations. The prevalent orientation in the so called standard model of the cognitive science of religion on mental representations of ritual instead of on ritual behavior itself will be discussed and criticized with reference to recent development in the cognitive sciences. Then, it will be argued for the usefulness of the theory of overimitation for modeling ritual transmission in a cultural evolutionary perspective with a final illustration of the complementarity of this theory with approaches characterizing cognition as embodied and extended.

Czech name

Ritual, Extended Mind, and Overimitation: Towards a Naturalistic Cognitive Theory of Ritual Transmission

Czech description

This paper will concentrate on cognitive theories of ritual and models of its transmission in the cultural evolutionary framework. It will be argued that this type of theorizing is important for explaining historical mutations of rituals in particular populations. The prevalent orientation in the so called standard model of the cognitive science of religion on mental representations of ritual instead of on ritual behavior itself will be discussed and criticized with reference to recent development in the cognitive sciences. Then, it will be argued for the usefulness of the theory of overimitation for modeling ritual transmission in a cultural evolutionary perspective with a final illustration of the complementarity of this theory with approaches characterizing cognition as embodied and extended.

Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů