Estimated Costs and Benefits of Extreme Rituals in Mauritius
Why do people willingly engage in painful or exhausting rituals with no obvious material reward?
"Cognitive" science of religion?
Kundtová Klocová points out the lack of clarity of the key concept of “cognition” within the field of cognitive science of religion, and also critiques White’s selective emphasis on the “standard” theories that have shaped the field in its beginnings.
Specifically, Kundtová Klocová advocates to include, for example, the theories of predictive coding, cultural evolution, and complex adaptive systems within the debate on what cognitive science of religion currently is, as they have been shaping the field with increasing importance.
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