Modes of Religiosity (Cognitive Science of Religion) by Harvey Whitehouse

Author:Harvey Whitehouse
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780759115606
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2004-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

Routinization, Relevance, and Revelation

We are still left with the challenge of explaining what motivates the truly enthusiastic supporters of routinized religions. This is no minor matter. It is generally the enthusiasts who create or shape the traditions others then follow. They are usually the ones who carry the great burdens of preserving and policing the orthodoxy. And they are the ones who often catch and hold the attention of audiences, infecting them with a sense of enduring revelation. Obvious examples of infectious oratory are provided by a range of contemporary Christian evangelical traditions.

According to anthropologist Brian Malley, American Protestant churches, on the whole, have displayed a remarkable resilience to the tedium effect, apparently by using patterns of religious repetition as a means of establishing the relevance of doctrinal orthodoxy to everyday life experience:

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