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Article Excerpt
Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission.
By Harvey Whitehouse. Walnut Creek, Lanham, New York, Toronto and Oxford: Altamira Press. 2004. Pp.xiii + 191. US$24.95. Paper.
It is perhaps best for a phenomenologically oriented thinker like myself not to review a book such as this. The thesis is basically the same presented in the author's work Arguments and Icons (2000), that, on balance,
Large-scale, inclusive, expansionary, diffusely cohesive, ideologically homogeneous, centralized religious traditions also incorporate high-frequency, low arousal rituals [such as church worship] and sustain a body of conceptually complex religious teachings that are subject to routinized verbal transmission [as in sermons]. [Whereas] small-scale or localized, exclusive, intensely cohesive, ideologically heterogeneous,...
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