Ritual : : What It Is, How It Works, and Why / / Robbie Davis-Floyd, Charles D. Laughlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Davis-Floyd, Robbie,; Laughlin, Charles D.,
• MitwirkendeR: Flowers, Betty Sue,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Foreword --; Preface. About the Authors and Their Personal and Academic Engagements with Ritual --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. What Is Ritual? Its Definition and Characteristics --; Chapter 1 Symbolism in Ritual --; Chapter 2 The Cognitive Matrix of Ritual: Belief Systems, Myths, and Paradigms --; Chapter 3 Belief Systems, Myths, Paradigms, Rituals, and the Process of Truing --; Chapter 4 Ritual Drivers: Generating and Controlling States of Consciousness --; Chapter 5 Ritual Techniques and Technologies --; Chapter 6 Ritual Framing, Order, and Formality: How Ritual Generates a Sense of Inevitability and Inviolability --; Chapter 7 Ritual as Performance: Generating Emotion, Belief, and Transformation --; Chapter 8 Ritual and the 4 Stages of Cognition --; Chapter 9 Ritual’s Paradoxical Roles: Preserving the Status Quo and Effecting Social Change --; Chapter 10 Designing Rituals --; Conclusion. Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why --; Appendix 1 How to Create and Perform an Effective Stage 4 Ritual: Things to Remember and Include --; Appendix 2 List of Documentary Films about Ritual --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800735293; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800735293
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robbie Davis-Floyd, Charles D. Laughlin.

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.