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Ritual: Meaningful or meaningless?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

Robert Turner
Robert Turner*
Affiliation:
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1 N 3BG, United Kingdom http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Turner/
*
r.turner@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract:

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In conflating opposing meanings of the term ritual, arising from historical Western cultural conflicts regarding church and state, this target article begs fundamental questions. Its appeals to cognitive science concepts such as working memory are poorly informed and obfuscate what could have been a far more penetrating and less biased discussion of stereotyped human action.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 633
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007