... of passage rites de passage Signalling imitation as psychological mechanism comparativism consilience early Christian history embodiment family resemblance interdisciplinarity ritual and belief ritual studies ritual theory Since the first decade of the present century, an increasing...

...Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and early Christian scholars have produced...