The paper you are about to read examines religious technologies and the role of
the human body in ritual practice. I will argue that ritual technologies like chanting,
drumming, mantra recitation, and prayer, all utilize repetitive sounds to help induce a
wide variety of states of consciousness that correspond to the tempo or rate of the
repetition. The specifics of how this happens in the brain have only been cursorily
articulated in most of the religious studies and anthropological literature.
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Auditory Driving as a Ritual Technology (pdf 1.8Mb)
