ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a specific type of religious behavior, rituals. It is organized around three questions: How are rituals learned, represented, and transmitted? The chapter begins with an overview of definitions and theories of rituals, including the key features that CSR researchers have proposed, demarks them from other behaviors, and distinguishes religious rituals from more mundane rituals. It also focuses on two leading theories of ritual behavior that characterized CSR in early 2000. The chapter ends by highlighting Modes of Religiosity theory.
