Hazard Precaution: Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130089
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/b23047-14/hazard-precaution-martin-lang-radim-chvaja" target="_blank" >https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/b23047-14/hazard-precaution-martin-lang-radim-chvaja</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/b23047-14" target="_blank" >10.4324/b23047-14</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hazard Precaution: Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion
ISBN
978-1-138-33167-9
Number of pages of the result
21
Pages from-to
164-184
Number of pages of the book
521
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York, NY
UT code for WoS chapter
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