Indicating Commitment: The Notion of dépense in the Study of Ritual and Religion

By analysing two cases from the recent history of Vaishnavism (a temple festival in Vrindavan; the development of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON), this paper shows that the notion of dépenseas developed by Marcel Mauss, Robert Hertz and Georges Bataille can be applied as an analytical tool in the study of rituals and religion as an indicator of religious commitment. At the same time it is possible to show that, by constructing a kind of macro-economic theory that includes religious behaviour, recent theories of religious economics are part of, and reproduce, a modern discourse of rationality that rules out, rather than understands, forms of irrationality such as unproductive expenditure (dépense).

Das Levitenhaus : häusliche Ceremonial- u. Ritual-Gesetze, das Schema-Lesen, Schaufäden u. Denkriemen enthaltend ; Abhandlung in deutscher Sprache, a. d. Hebr. bearb. u. mit Erklärungen versehen

Isaac Landau

Das Levitenhaus : häusliche Ceremonial- u. Ritual-Gesetze, das Schema-Lesen, Schaufäden, Denkriemen, Hebe am Teige, Lichtanzünden, u. das Fleischsalzen enthaltend ; a. d. Hebr. bearb. u. mit Erklärungen versehen

Isaac Landau

Nonverbal social communication and gesture control in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia patients are severely impaired in nonverbal communication, including social perception and gesture production. However, the impact of nonverbal social perception on gestural behavior remains unknown, as is the contribution of negative symptoms, working memory, and abnormal motor behavior. Thus, the study tested whether poor nonverbal social perception was related to impaired gesture performance, gestural knowledge, or motor abnormalities. Forty-six patients with schizophrenia (80%), schizophreniform (15%), or schizoaffective disorder (5%) and 44 healthy controls matched for age, gender, and education were included. Participants completed 4 tasks on nonverbal communication including nonverbal social perception, gesture performance, gesture recognition, and tool use. In addition, they underwent comprehensive clinical and motor assessments. Patients presented impaired nonverbal communication in all tasks compared with controls. Furthermore, in contrast to controls, performance in patients was highly correlated between tasks, not explained by supramodal cognitive deficits such as working memory. Schizophrenia patients with impaired gesture performance also demonstrated poor nonverbal social perception, gestural knowledge, and tool use. Importantly, motor/frontal abnormalities negatively mediated the strong association between nonverbal social perception and gesture performance. The factors negative symptoms and antipsychotic dosage were unrelated to the nonverbal tasks. The study confirmed a generalized nonverbal communication deficit in schizophrenia. Specifically, the findings suggested that nonverbal social perception in schizophrenia has a relevant impact on gestural impairment beyond the negative influence of motor/frontal abnormalities.

Ritual-Mordprozesse : bedeutsame Fälle aus d. Vergangenheit

von Adolph Kohut

Meine Antworten an die Rabbiner oder: 5 Briefe über d. Talmudismus u. d. Blut-Ritual d. Juden

von Aug. Rohling

The Jew and human sacrifice : (Human blood and Jewish ritual) ; an historical and sociological inquiry

by Hermann L. Strack. The English transl. by Henry Blanchamp

The Persian Jews : their books and ritual

by Elkan Nathan Adler [[Elektronische Ressource]]