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Ritual and Christian Beginnings - A Socio-Cognitive Analysis (Hardcover)
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Ritual and Christian Beginnings - A Socio-Cognitive Analysis (Hardcover)
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The rise of early Christianity has been examined from a myriad of
perspectives, but until recently ritual has been a neglected topic.
Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis argues
that ritual theory is indispensable for the study of Christian
beginnings. It also makes a strong case for the application of
theories and insights from the Cognitive Science of Religion, a
field that has established itself as a vigorous movement in
Religious Studies over the past two decades. Risto Uro develops a
'socio-cognitive' approach to the study of early Christian rituals,
seeking to integrate a social-level analysis with findings from the
cognitive and evolutionary sciences. Ritual and Christian
Beginnings provides an overview of how ritual has been approached
in previous scholarship, including reasons for its neglect, and
introduces the reader to the emerging fields of Ritual Studies and
the Cognitive Science of Religion. In particular, it explores the
ways in which cognitive theories of ritual can shed new light on
issues discussed by early Christian scholars, and opens up new
questions and avenues for further research. The socio-cognitive
approach to ritual is applied to a number of test cases, including
John the Baptist, the ritual healing practiced by Jesus and the
early Christians, the social life of Pauline Christianity, and the
development of early Christian baptismal practices. The analysis
creates building blocks for a new account of Christian beginnings,
highlighting the role of ritual innovation, cooperative signalling,
and the importance of bodily actions for the generation and
transmission of religious knowledge.
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