Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: A Political Interpretation
The article advances a political interpretation of ritual behavior in religious communes, grounded in costly signaling theory of religion. Both asceticism, often involving self-inflicted pain or severe deprivation, and ecstatic behavior, incurring considerable energetic and emotional expenditure, ca...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 342-368 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Russia
/ USA
/ Skoptsy
/ Shakers
/ Asceticism
/ Ecstasy
/ Risk appetite
/ Signal
/ Religious sociology
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality KBK Europe (East) KBQ North America KDH Christian sects |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Ritual
B costly signaling theory B the Shakers B the Skoptsy B Political anthropology B religious communes |
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