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Area of Science:

  • Anthropology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cultural Evolution

Background:

  • Human rituals display vast cultural and historical diversity.
  • Understanding the underlying structure of ritual is crucial for cognitive and evolutionary theories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify latent dimensions in ritual structure and experiences.
  • To determine if ritual diversity is infinitely plastic or follows general patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Factor analysis on a cross-cultural dataset of 651 rituals from 74 groups.
  • Factor analysis on a contemporary dataset of 779 individuals from Japan, India, and the US.

Main Results:

  • Identified reliable latent dimensions in ritual form and experience.
  • Found that euphoric and dysphoric ritual experiences are largely orthogonal.
  • Ritual experiences cluster into orthogonal euphoric, dysphoric, frequency, and cognitive dimensions.

Conclusions:

  • Suggests significant regularities exist in ritual expression and experience across cultures and time.
  • Provides evidence for foundational elements in ritual structure and human behavior.
  • Implications for cognitive theories of ritual and cultural evolution.