The Embodiment of Worship

Relations Among Postural, Psychological, and Physiological Aspects of Religious Practice

Authors

  • Patty Van Cappellen Duke University
  • Megan E. Edwards Duke University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.38683

Keywords:

embodiment, prayer, body, emotions, religious experience

Abstract

In addition to a set of beliefs, religion is fundamentally a corporeal practice. Across religions, specific postures adopted for prayer and worship may not simply reflect arbitrary customs but are closely intertwined with religious experience. This contribution reviews embodiment theory and related empirical evidence showing how body postures influence our emotions, thoughts, and decision-making. We propose a typology of postures adopted in religious practices along the dimensions of expansiveness-constrictiveness and upward-downward body orientation, and review the corpus of published/unpublished research on the embodiment of worship. We further discuss that in addition to enabling the experiential and ritualistic aspect of religion, embodiment serves at least four functions: communicative, social, cognitive, and intrapersonal. Finally, we suggest contextual and individual differences variables that may constrain the choice and psychological consequences of postures within and outside religious contexts. Together, we emphasize that the locus of religion’s psycho-social “effects” is not only in the mind or the brain but in the full body.

Author Biographies

  • Patty Van Cappellen, Duke University

    Social Science Research Institute

  • Megan E. Edwards, Duke University

    Social Science Research Institute

References

Atkinson, Q. D. and H. Whitehouse. 2011. “The Cultural Morphospace of Ritual Form: Examining Modes of Religiosity Cross-Culturally.” Evolution and Human Behavior 32: 50–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.09.002

Bailey, A., M. LaFrance and J. F. Dovidio. 2017. “Could a Woman Be Superman? Gender and the Embodiment of Power Postures.” Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 2: 6–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2016.1248079

Barrett, L. F. and K. A. Lindquist. 2008. “The Embodiment of Emotion.” In Embodied Grounding: Social, Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscientific Approaches, edited by G. R. Semin and E. R. Smith, 237–262. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511805837.011

Barsalou, L. W. 2008. “Grounded Cognition.” Annual Review of Psychology 59: 617–645. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093639

Barsalou, L. W., A. K. Barbey, W. K. Simmons and A. Santos. 2005. “Embodiment in Religious Knowledge.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 5: 14–57. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568537054068624

Barsalou, L., W. D. Pecher, R. Zeelenberg, W. K. Simmons and S. B. Hamann. 2005. “Multimodal Simulation in Conceptual Processing.” In Categorization Inside and Outside the Lab: Festschrift in Honor of Douglas L. Medin, edited by W. Ahn, R. Goldstone, B. Love, A. Markman and P. Wolff, 249–270. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/11156-014

Batson, G. and M. Wilson. 2014. Body and Mind in Motion: Dance and Neuroscience in Conversation. Chicago, IL: Intellect.

Bialobrzeska, O. and M. Parzuchowski. 2016. “Size or Openness: Expansive but Closed Body Posture Increases Submissive Behavior.” Psychological Bulletin 47: 186–194. https://doi.org/10.1515/ppb-2016-0022

Bombari, D., M. Schmid Mast, and C. Pulfrey. 2017. “Real and Imagined Power Poses: Is the Physical Experience Necessary after All?” Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 2: 44–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2017.1341183

Briñol, P., R. E. Petty, and B. Wagner. 2009. “Body Posture Effects on Self-Evaluation: A Self-Validation Approach.” European Journal of Social Psychology 39: 1053–1064. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.607

Carney, D. R., A. J. Cuddy and A. J. Yap. 2010. Power Poses: Brief Nonverbal Displays Cause Neuroendocrine Change and Increase Risk Tolerance. Psychological Science 21: 1363–1368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610383437

Carney, D. R., A. J. Cuddy, and A. J. Yap. 2015. “Review and Summary of Research on the Embodiment Effects of Expansive vs. Contractive Nonverbal Displays.” Psychological Science 26: 657–663. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614566855

Cesario, J., K. J. Jonas, and D. R. Carney. 2017. “CRSP Special Issue on Power Poses: What Was the Point and What Did We Learn?” Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 2: 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2017.1309876

Chasteen, A. L., D. C. Burdzy, and J. Pratt. 2010. “Thinking of God Moves Attention.” Neuropsychologia 48: 627–630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.029

Coakley, S. 2000. Religion and the Body. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cohen, A. B. 2009. “Many Forms of Culture.” American Psychologist 64: 194–204. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015308

Cohen, A. B., J. I. Siegel and P. Rozin. 2003. “Faith Versus Practice: Different Bases for Religiosity Judgments by Jews and Protestants.” European Journal of Social Psychology 33: 287–295. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.148

Coles, N. A., J. T. Larsen and H. Lench. 2017, August 27. “A Meta-Analysis of the Facial Feedback Literature: Effects of Facial Feedback on Emotional Experience Are Small and Variable.” https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/svjru

Cuddy, A., S. J. Schultz and N. E. Fosse. 2018. “P-Curving a More Comprehensive Body of Research on Postural Feedback Reveals Clear Evidential Value for Power-Posing Effects: Reply to Simmons and Simonsohn 2017.” Psychological Science 29: 656–666. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617746749

Davis, J. I., A. Senghas and K. N. Ochsner. 2009. “How Does Facial Feedback Modulate Emotional Experience?” Journal of Research in Personality 43: 822–829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2009.06.005

Doufesh, H., T. Faisal, K. S. Lim and F. Ibrahim. 2012. “EEG Spectral Analysis on Muslim Prayers.” Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback 37: 11–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-011-9170-1

Duclos, S. E., J. D. Laird, E. Schneider, M. Sexter, L. Stern and O. Van Lighten. 1989. “Emotion-Specific Effects of Facial Expressions and Postures on Emotional Experience.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57: 100–108. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.57.1.100

Dunbar, R. I. M. 2017. “What’s Missing from the Scientific Study of Religion?” Religion, Brain & Behavior 7: 349–353. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1249927

Engelkamp, J. 1998. Memory for Actions. Hove, England: Psychology Press.

Fuller, R. C. 2005. “Faith of the Flesh: Bodily Sources of Spirituality.” Religious Studies Review 31: 135–139. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2005.00009.x

Fuller, R. C. and D. E. Montgomery. 2015. “A Body Posture and Religious Attitudes.” Archive for the Psychology of Religion 37: 227–239. https://doi.org/10.1163/15736121-12341310

Garrison K. E., D. Tang, and B. J. Schmeichel. 2016. “Embodying Power: A Pre registered Replication and Extension of the Power Pose Effect.” Social Psychological and Personality Science 7: 623–630. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616652209

George, L. K., C. G. Ellison, and D. B. Larson. 2002. “Explaining the Relationships between Religious Involvement and Health.” Psychological Inquiry 13: 190–200. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1303_04

Goodman, F. D. 1999. “Ritual Body Postures, Channeling, and the Ecstatic Body Trance.” Anthropology of Consciousness 10: 54–59. https://doi.org/10.1525/ac.1999.10.1.54

Gore, B. 2009. The Ecstatic Experience: Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys. Rochester, VE: Inner Traditions/Bear.

Granqvist, P., M. Mikulincer and P. R. Shaver. 2010. “Religion as Attachment: Normative Processes and Individual Differences.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 14: 49–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868309348618

Grant, C. C., M. Viljoen, J. van Rwensburg and P. S. Wood. 2012. “Heart Rate Variability Assessment of the Effect of Physical Training on Autonomic Cardiac Control.” Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology 17: 219–229. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-474X.2012.00511.x

Green, J.B. 1998. “‘Bodies, That Is – Human Lives’: A Re-examination of Human Nature in the Bible.” In Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature, edited by W. S. Brown, N. Murphy and H. N. Malony, 149–173. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Gronau, Q. F., S. Van Erp, D. W. Heck, J. Cesario, K. J. Jonas, and E.-J. Wagenmakers. 2017. “A Bayesian Model-Averaged Meta-Analysis of the Power Pose Effect with Informed and Default Priors: The Case of Felt Power.” Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 2: 123–138. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2017.1326760

Gruber, M. I. 1980. Aspects on Nonverbal Communication in the Ancient Near East. Rome: Biblical Institute Press.

Hall, E. L. 2010. “What Are Bodies For? An Integrative Examination of Embodiment.” Christian Scholar’s Review 39: 159–175.

Hayward, R. D. and N. Krause. 2014. “Religion, Mental Health and Well-Being: Social Aspects.” In Religion, Personality, and Social Behavior, edited by V. Saroglou, 255–280. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Hess, U., A. Kappas, G. J. McHugo, J. T. Lanzetta and R. E. Kleck. 1992. “The Facilitative Effect of Facial Expression on the Self-Generation of Emotion.” International Journal of Psychophysiology 12: 251–265. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8760(92)90064-I

Johnson, K. A., Y. J. Li, A. B. Cohen, and M. A. Okun. 2013. “Friends in High Places: The Influence of Authoritarian and Benevolent God-Concepts on Social Attitudes and Behaviors.” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 5: 15–22. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030138

Jones, J. W. 2019. Living Religion: Embodiment, Theology, and the Possibility of a Spiritual Sense. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190927387.001.0001

Klaschinski, L., K. Schnabel and M. Schröder-Abé. 2017. “Benefits of Power Posing: Effects on Dominance and Social Sensitivity.” Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 2: 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2016.1248080

Kundtová Klocová, E. 2017. Body in Ritual Space: Communication through Embodied Practices in Religious Ritual. Doctoral dissertation. Masaryk University, Brno.

Kruger, P. 1994. “Nonverbal Communication and Symbolic Gestures in the Psalms.” Bible Translator 45: 213–222. https://doi.org/10.1177/026009439404500203

Ladd, K. L., C. A. Cook, K. J. Messick, and W. Brown. 2010, October. Experimentally Induced Influences of Motion and Posture on Prayer’s Objective Content and Subjective Experience. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore, MD.

Ladd, K. L. and B. Spilka. 2002. “Inward, Outward, and Upward: Cognitive Aspects of Prayer.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41: 475–484. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5906.00131

LaFrance, M. and C. Mayo. 1978. “Cultural Aspects of Nonverbal Communication.” International Journal of Intercultural Relations 2: 71–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/0147-1767(78)90029-9

Laird, J. D. 1974. “Self-Attribution of Emotion: The Effects of Expressive Behavior on the Quality of Emotional Experience.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 29: 475–486. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0036125

Lindquist, K. A. 2013. “Emotions Emerge from More Basic Psychological Ingredients: A Modern Psychological Constructionist Model.” Emotion Review 5: 356–368. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073913489750

MacCormack, J. K. and K. A. Lindquist. 2017. “Bodily Contributions to Emotion: Schachter’s Legacy for a Psychological Constructionist View on Emotion.” Emotion Review 9: 36–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073916639664

Markus, H. R. and S. Kitayama. 1991. “Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation.” Psychological Review 98: 224–253. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.98.2.224

Matsumoto, D. 2006. “Culture and Nonverbal Behavior.” In Handbook of Nonverbal Communication, edited by V. Manusov and M. L. Patterson, 219–235. London: Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412976152.n12

Mehling, W. E., C. Price, J. J. Daubenmier, M. Acree, E. Bartmess and A. Stewart. 2012. “The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness MAIA.” PLoS ONE 7: e48230. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048230

Meier, B. P., D. J. Hauser, M. D. Robinson, C. K. Friesen and K. Schjeldahl. 2007. “What’s ‘Up’ with God? Vertical Space as a Representation of the Divine.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 93: 699–710. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.93.5.699

Meier, B. P., S. Schnall, N. Schwarz and J. A. Bargh. 2012. “Embodiment in Social Psychology.” Topics in Cognitive Science 4: 705–716. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01212.x

Mendes, W. B. 2009. “Assessing Autonomic Nervous System Activity.” In Methods in Social Neuroscience, edited by E. Harmon-Jones and J. S. Beer, 118–147. New York: Guilford.

Niedenthal, P. M., L. W. Barsalou, P. Winkielman, S. Krauth-Gruber and F. Ric. 2005. “Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 9: 184–211. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0903_1

Noah, T., Y. Schul and R. Mayo. 2018. “When Both the Original Study and Its Failed Replication Are Correct: Feeling Observed Eliminates the Facial-Feedback Effect.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114: 657–664. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000121

Norenzayan, A. 2013. Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400848324

Pagitt, D. and K. Prill. 2013. Body Prayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God. Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook.

Paivio, A. 1990. Mental Representations: A Dual Coding Approach. Volume 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195066661.001.0001

Park, C. L. 2005. “Religion as a Meaning-Making Framework in Coping with Life Stress.” Journal of Social Issues 61: 707–729. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2005.00428.x

Park, L. E., L. Streamer, L. Huang, and A. D. Galinsky. 2013. “Stand Tall, but Don’t Put Your Feet Up: Universal and Culturally-Specific Effects of Expansive Postures on Power.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49: 965–971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.06.001

Pecher, D., R. Zeelenberg, and L. W. Barsalou. 2004. “Sensorimotor Simulations Underlie Conceptual Representations: Modality-Specific Effects of Prior Activation.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 11: 164–167. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206477

Porges, S. W. 2017. The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe. New York, NY: WW Norton & Co.

Randolph-Seng, B. and M. E. Nielsen. 2007. “Honesty: One Effect of Primed Religious Representations.” International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 17: 303–315. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206477

Ranehill, E., A. Dreber, M. Johannesson, S. Leiberg, S. Sul, and R. A. Weber. 2015. “Assessing the Robustness of Power Posing: No Effect on Hormones and Risk Tolerance in a Large Sample of Men and Women.” Psychological Science 26: 653–656. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614553946

Ransom, M. R. and M. D. Alicke. 2013. “On Bended Knee: Embodiment and Religious Judgments.” Current Research in Social Psychology 21. http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.htm.

Richert, R. A., N. J. Shaman, A. R. Saide, and K. A. Lesage. 2016. “Folding Your Hands Helps God Hear You: Prayer and Anthropomorphism in Parents and Children.” In Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 27, edited by A. Villange and R. W. Hood, 140–157. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004322035_010

Riskind, J. H. and C. C. Gotay. 1982. “Physical Posture: Could it Have Regulatory or Feedback Effects on Motivation and Emotion?” Motivation and Emotion 6: 273–298. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00992249

Rosenthal, R. 1979. “The ‘File Drawer Problem’ and Tolerance for Null Results.” Psychological Bulletin 86: 638–641. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.86.3.638

Sahgal, N. 2018, May 29. “Key Findings about Religion in Western Europe.” https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/29/10-key-findings-aboutreligion-in-western-europe/

Schwanenflugel, P. J. 2013. “Why are Abstract Concepts Hard to Understand?” In The Psychology of Word Meanings, edited by P. J. Schwanenflugel, 235–262. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Soderkvist, S., K. Ohlen and U. Dimberg. 2018. “How the Experiences of Emotion is Modulated by Facial Feedback.” Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 42: 129–151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-017-0264-1

Soliman, T. M., K. A. Johnson and H. Song. 2015. “It’s Not ‘All in Your Head’: Understanding Religion from an Embodied Cognition Perspective.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 10: 852–864. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615606373

Srinivasan, K., S. Sucharita, and M. Vaz. 2002. “Effect of Standing on Short Term Heart Rate Variability across Age.” Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging 22: 404–408. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1475-097X.2002.00450.x

Stepper, S. and F. Strack. 1993. “Proprioceptive Determinants of Emotional and Nonemotional Feelings.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 64: 211–220. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.64.2.211

Strack, F. 2016. “Reflection on the Smiling Registered Replication Report.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 11: 929–930. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616674460

Strack, F., L. L. Martin, and S. Stepper. 1988. “Inhibiting and Facilitating Conditions of the Human Smile: A Nonobtrusive Test of the Facial Feedback Hypothesis.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54: 768–777. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.54.5.768

Taylor, C. E., C. K. Willie, G. Atkinson, H. Jones and Y. C. Tzeng. 2013. “Postural Influences on the Mechanical and Neural Components of the Cardiovagal Baroreflex.” Acta Physiologica 208: 66–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/apha.12087

Thompson, E. and F. J. Varela. 2001. “Radical Embodiment: Neural Dynamics and Consciousness.” Trends in Cognitive Science 5: 418–425. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01750-2

Tomei, A. and J. Grivel. 2014. “Body Posture and the Feeling of Social Closeness: An Exploratory Study in a Naturalistic Setting.” Current Psychology 33: 35–46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-013-9194-1

Van Cappellen, P., O. Corneille, S. Cols, and V. Saroglou. 2011. “Beyond Mere Compliance to Authoritative Figures: Religious Priming Increases Conformity to Informational Influence Among Submissive People.” The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 21: 97–105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2011.556995

Van Cappellen, P. and B. Rimé. 2014. “Positive Emotions and Self-Transcendence.” In Religion, Personality, and Social Behavior, edited by V. Saroglou, 123–145. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Van Cappellen, P., M. Toth-Gauthier, V. Saroglou, and B. L. Fredrickson. 2016. “Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions.” Journal of Happiness Studies 17: 485–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-014-9605-5

Van Cappellen, P., M. Edwards, and B. L. Fredrickson. 2020. “Upward Spirals of Positive Emotions and Religious Behaviors.” Current Opinion in Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.09.004

Veenstra, L., I. K. Schneider and S. L. Koole. 2017. “Embodied Mood Regulation: The Impact of Body Posture on Mood Recovery, Negative Thoughts, and Mood-Congruent Recall.” Cognition and Emotion 31: 1361–1376. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1225003

Wagenmakers, E.-J., T. Beek, L. Dijkhoff, Q. F. Gronau, A. Acosta, R. B. Adams, Jr., D. N. Albohn, E. S. Allard, S. D. Benning, E.-M. Blouin-Hudon, L. C. Bulnes, T. L. Caldwell, R. J. Calin-Jageman, C. A. Capaldi, N. S. Carfagno, K. T. Chasten, A. Cleeremans, L. Connell, J. M. DeCicco, K. Dijkstra, A. H. Fischer, F. Foroni, U. Hess, K. J. Holmes, J. L. H. Jones, O. Klein, C. Koch, S. Korb, P. Lewinski, J. D. Liao, S. Lund, J. Lupianez, D. Lynott, C. N. Nance, S. Oosterwijk, A. A. Ozdo?ru, A. P. Pacheco-Unguetti, B. Pearson, C. Powis, S. Riding, T.-A. Roberts, R. I. Rumiati, M. Senden, N. B. Shea-Shumsky, K. Sobocko, J. A. Soto, T. G. Steiner, J. M. Talarico, Z. M. van Allen, M. Vandekerckhove, B. Wainwright, J. F. Wayand, R. Zeelenberg, E. E. Zetzer and R. A. Zwaan. 2016. “Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper 1988.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 11: 917–928. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616674458

Watts, F. 2013. “Embodied Cognition and Religion.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 48: 745–758. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12026

Weiss, D. H. 2013. “Embodied Cognition in Classical Rabbinic Literature.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 48: 788–807. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12027

Wells, G. L. and R. E. Petty. 1980. “The Effects of Overt Head Movements on Persuasion: Compatibility and Incompatibility of Responses.” Basic and Applied Social Psychology 1: 219–230. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15324834basp0103_2

Wilkes, C., R. Kydd, M. Sagar and E. Broadbent. 2017. “Upright Posture Improves Affect and Fatigue in People with Depressive Symptoms.” Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 54: 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.07.015

Wilkinson, M. and P. Althouse. 2017. Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Volume 8: Pentecostals and the Body. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004344181

Wiltermuth, S. S. and C. Heath. 2009. “Synchrony and Cooperation.” Psychological Science 20: 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02253.x

Woolley, J. D. and K. E. Phelps. 2001. “The Development of Children’s Beliefs about Prayer.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 1: 139–166. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853701316931380

Zimmer, H. D. 2001. “Why do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? Action Memory as a Variant of Encoding Manipulations or the Result of a Specific Memory System.” In Memory For Action: A Distinct Form of Episodic Memory?, edited by H. D. Zimmer, R. Cohen, M.J. Guynn, J. Engelkamp, R. Kormi-Nouri, and M.A. Foley, 151–198. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Published

2021-02-06

Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Van Cappellen, P., & Edwards, M. E. (2021). The Embodiment of Worship: Relations Among Postural, Psychological, and Physiological Aspects of Religious Practice. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 6(1-2), 56–79 . https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.38683