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September 19, 2012

Death Rituals In The Animal Kingdom

Do animals have death rituals?

June 8, 2013

The Evolutionary Power Of Ritual

Religious rituals are effective because they are seemingly defying rationality!In 2003, Richard Sosis and Eric Bressler achieved a breakthrough by applying the “costly signaling theory”. According to this theory, religious rituals are able to promote intragroup cooperation exactly by bringing up purely or partially non-rational behaviors – signaling to onlookers that true believers are at hand.