In line with this dichotomy, recent work relating the modes theory to archaeological evidence from the early Neolithic site at Catalhoyuk suggests that the emergence of a doctrinal mode may have been associated with the increasing reliance on agricultural production (Whitehouse & Hodder, in press). Here, we construct a database recording frequency, arousal and contextual information for 645 religious rituals from 74 cultures around the globe, as documented in the electronic Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF). Whilst the modes theory has received considerable attention in the last decade from historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and cognitive scientists (Martin & Whitehouse, 2005 McCauley, 2001 McCauley & Lawson, 2002 McCauley & Whitehouse, 2005 Whitehouse & Martin, 2004 Whitehouse & McCauley, 2005) and there is much to support it in the ethnographic record (Ketola 2002 Naumescu, 2008 Whitehouse & Laidlaw, 2004 Xygalatas, 2007), the above predictions about variation in ritual form have not yet been tested using a statistical framework and global sampling of cultures.
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