The Ritual Effect

Author : Michael Norton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781982153021

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In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth’s Grit, a renowned social psychologist demonstrates the power of small acts—and how a subtle turning of habits into rituals can add purpose and pleasure to life. Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track—what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we’re more mindful about these actions—when we focus on the precise way they are performed—they can instead become rituals. Shifting from a “habitual” mindset to a “ritual” mindset can convert ordinary acts from black and white to technicolor. Think of the way you savor a certain beverage, the care you take with a particular outfit that gets worn only on special occasions, the unique way that your family gathers around the table during holidays, or the secret language you enjoy with your significant other. To some, these behaviors may seem quirky, but because rituals matter so deeply to us on a personal level, they imbue our lives with purpose and meaning. Drawing on a decade of original research, Norton shows that rituals play a role in healing communities experiencing a great loss, marking life’s major transitions, driving a stadium of sports fans to ecstasy, and helping us rise to challenges and realize opportunities. Compelling, insightful, and practical, The Ritual Effect reminds us of the intention-filled acts that drive human behavior and create sur­prising satisfaction and enjoyment.

Author : Michael Norton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780241465455

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‘Fascinating . . . lively storytelling and cutting-edge science, The Ritual Effect sticks with you' Charles Duhigg In this ground-breaking and inspiring guide, a renowned Harvard psychologist demonstrates how turning everyday habits into rituals can improve our work, our relationships and our lives. Think of the quirky traditions that you keep up with your friends. Or the unusual ways that you and your family mark special occasions. Or the gifts that your partner gives – and what you’d think if they’d bought the same for an ex. These are rituals: practices that are imbued with symbolic meaning. And they have the power to turn black-and-white moments into technicolour. Along the way, Norton shares stories from sporting superstars (Serena Williams always bouncing the ball five times before her first serve), million-dollar companies (Zipcar urging staff to destroy their old desktops with sledgehammers) and ordinary people (inventing their own “ritual signatures”), who reimagine everyday moments, build camaraderie, and spark joy. Rituals can help us to forge winning teams, heal families experiencing grief and encourage us rise to challenges, big or small. Now it’s time to create yours.

Author : Elizabeth Dunn,Michael Norton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476740706

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Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn,Michael Norton Pdf

If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Oxford movement
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081798043

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The Moral Effect of Irregularities in the Ritual of the Church by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Norton
Publisher : Penguin Life
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241465443

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The Ritual Effect by Michael Norton Pdf

We may think often about changing our habits. But habits automate us. Rituals -- ordinary practices that are imbued with symbolic meaning -- animate us. Once we know how, we can identify existing rituals and make them more effective - as well as create new ones to help improve our lives. Using cutting-edge research, Harvard professor Michael Norton shows that our rituals - from blowing out birthday candles to the traditions that your family have kept up for decades - are transformative. They help us achieve our goals as individuals, in relationships, at work and in society. The impact of rituals is clear from science. In one of Norton's own experiments, those who performed an unwrapping chocolate ritual spent 50% more time savouring it, and people singing karaoke performed better after enacting a ritual -- even when they didn't believe they would. Even one of the most cliché of all group rituals --- the trust fall - has been proven to have a positive effect on those involved. The Ritual Effect is one of those rare books that completely changes the way you see your everyday life. Professor Norton shows memorably how rituals, like a Swiss Army knife, can produce whatever emotional effect we need, and how shifting from a habitual to a ritual mindset can enhance our daily pleasures and deepen our relationships.

Author : Veronika Rybanska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350108912

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The Impact of Ritual on Child Cognition by Veronika Rybanska Pdf

In this book, Veronika Rybanska explores how ritual participation affects the cognitive abilities of children. Rybanska argues that, far from being a simple matter of mindless copying, ritual participation in childhood requires rigorous computation by cognitive mechanisms. In turn, this computation can improve a child's 'executive functioning': a set of cognitive skills that are essential for successful cognitive, social and psychological development. After providing a critique of existing literature on religion and ritual, Rybanska presents a new interdisciplinary approach that draws from anthropology, psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Using cross-cultural examples, including a comparison between Melanesian culture and Western culture, Rybanska shows that some of the most socially important effects of rituals seem to be universal. The implications of this research suggest that we should rethink multiple aspects of child-rearing and educational policy, and shows that the presence of some form of ritual during childhood could have positive evolutionary benefits.

Author : William K. Gilders
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879930

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Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible by William K. Gilders Pdf

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Author : Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578630452

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The Ritual Magic Workbook by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Pdf

This book takes the student month-by-month through a year of magical training. Each month's work is concluded with practical exercises. Covers - constructing and consecrating a temple; meditation and visualization techniques; working in an elemental temple; exploring the inner world. For students wishing to take up ceremonial magic, but who are unwilling or unable to join a working group.

Author : Wesley J. Bergen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567524430

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Reading Ritual by Wesley J. Bergen Pdf

This book draws on a variety of disciplines to undertake a unique analysis of Leviticus 1-7. Rather than studying the rituals prescribed in Leviticus as arcane historical/theological texts of little interest to the modern reader, or as examples of primitive rituals that have no parallel in Western society, this book provides many points of contact between animal sacrifice rituals and various parts of post-modern society. Modern rituals such as Monday Night Football, eating fast food, sending sons and daughters off to war, and even the rituals of modern academia are contrasted with the text of Leviticus. In addition, responses to Leviticus among modern African Christians and in the early church are used to draw out further understandings of how the language and practice of sacrifice still shapes the lives of people. This study takes a consciously Christian perspective on Leviticus. Leviticus is assumed to be an ongoing part of the Christian Bible. The usual Christian response to Leviticus is to ignore it or to claim that all sacrifice has now been superseded by the sacrifice of Jesus. This study refutes those simplistic assertions, and attempts to reassert the place of Leviticus as a source for Christian self-understanding. This is volume 417 of JSOTS and volume 9 of Playing the Texts.

Author : Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047421825

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Theorizing Rituals, Volume 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005 by Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg Pdf

Volume two of Theorizing Rituals mainly consists of an annotated bibliography of more than 400 items covering those books, edited volumes and essays that are considered most relevant for the field of ritual theory.

Author : John Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136889929

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Understanding Religious Ritual by John Hoffmann Pdf

This book represents contributions from leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic.

Author : Don Handelman,Galina Lindquist
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1845450515

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Ritual in Its Own Right by Don Handelman,Galina Lindquist Pdf

Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.

Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198039212

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Teaching Ritual by Catherine Bell Pdf

Many teachers share an interest in bringing a better appreciation of ritual into their religious studies classes, but are uncertain how to do it. Religious studies faculty know how to teach texts, but they often have difficulty teaching something for which the meaning lies in the doing. How do you teach such "doing"? How much need be done? How does the teacher talk about the religiosity that exists in personalized relationships, not textual descriptions or prescriptions? These practical issues also give rise to theoretical questions. Giving more attention to ritual effectively suggests a reinterpretation of religion itself-an understanding less focused on what people have thought and written, and more focused on how they engage their universe. Many useful analyses of ritual derive from anthropological and sociological premises, which may be foreign to religious studies faculty and even seen by some as theologically problematic. This is the first resource to address the issues specific to teaching this subject. A stellar cast of contributors, all scholars of ritual and teachers experienced in using ritual in a wide variety of courses and settings, explain what has worked for them in the classroom, what has not, and what they have learned from the experience of being more real about religion. Their voices range from personal to formal, their topics from ways to use field trips to the role of architecture. The result is a rich guide for teachers who are new to the subject as well as the experienced willing to think about new angles and fresh approaches.

Author : T. C. Kline III,Justin Tiwald
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438451954

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Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi by T. C. Kline III,Justin Tiwald Pdf

Challenges traditional views to consider Xunzi as a religious thinker. Xunzi, a founding figure in the Confucian tradition, is one of the world’s great philosophers and theorists of religion. For much of the last century, his work has been seen largely as critical of religion, particularly the popular beliefs and invocations of supernatural forces that underpin so many religious rituals. Contributors to this volume challenge this view and offer a more sophisticated picture of Xunzi. He emerges not as critic, but rather as an adherent of religion who seeks to give religious practices meaning even though many religious beliefs are mistaken or self-serving. Each essay offers a powerful illustration of Xunzi as both a religious devotee and as a philosopher of religion, drawing on a wide array of disciplines and methodologies.

Author : Blanka Misic,Abigail Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009355544

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Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World by Blanka Misic,Abigail Graham Pdf

Explores how the senses shaped the way the Romans perceived, understood, and remembered ritual experiences.