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Multicultural religious and spiritual rituals: Meaning and praxis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2007
Abstract:
This commentary argues against the theory that cultural ritual behavior is meaningless or that ritual action is solely a by-product of fear-based precautionary and action-parsing systems. Humans demonstrate the ability to spontaneously change their use of proximate intentions and attribute ultimate intentions to ritual actions that are not dependent upon fear or physical and emotional/mental dysfunction.
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