ABSTRACT
In a number of well-known publications, Harvey Whitehouse proposes (2000, 2004a) that religious practices and concepts are transmitted by one of two fundamentally dierent modes: the imagistic and the doctrinal. e “modes of religion” theory has attracted considerable scholarly interest, and only the bare essentials need to be summarized here. e theory is based on the observation that religious elements, in order to survive, must be committed to memory, and that there are two distinct forms of memory with divergent properties that profoundly in uence the nature of those religious elements.
