期刊名称：DISKUS: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR)
印刷版ISSN：0967-8948
出版年度：2012
卷号：13
页码：1-9
出版社：British Association for the Study of Religions
摘要：This paper considers ritual phenomena in the context of a naturalistic theory of religion. Religious traditions are described as mythic traditions, where myth is understood to be a narrative integration of cosmological and moral ideas. Ritual practices emerge as part of a cluster of strategies that function collectively to revitalize the power of the myth to influence the ways people think, feel and act
