divergent modes of religiosity (DMR) & armed struggle
DMR theory proposes that ritual traditions tend to cluster around 2 socio-political “attractor positions”:
1. the imagistic mode of religiosity, characterized by:
- low-frequency (i.e., rarely performed),
- high-arousal (typically painful or frightening) rituals &
- small but intensely cohesive communities
2. the doctrinal mode of religiosity, characterized by:
- high-frequency (i.e., routinized)
- low-arousal (often tedious and repetitive) rituals &
- large-scale, hierarchical, but more diffusely cohesive communities.
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https://www.icea.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/ICEA/ICEA_publication_pdfs/HW___BMcQ_2012_Divergent_modes.pdf
https://evolution-institute.org/focus-article/the-role-of-ritual-in-the-evolution-of-social-complexity-five-predictions-and-a-drum-roll/
https://books.google.com/books?id=5UsYuiIkZXoC&pg=PA599&lpg=PA599&dq=%22DMR+theory%22&source=bl&ots=Zl_9rlnIYw&sig=rqAUbrW0Yd3rhuNZ_rOyRZ1i-CI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCsQ6AEwA2oVChMIqMbOxcb0yAIVjHk-Ch3vKgW0#v=onepage&q=%22DMR%20theory%22&f=false