Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change.
Social Forces September 1, 1974 Philip L. Berg, Erika Bourguignon 300 citations
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Erika Bourguignon
3 papers in the library · 550 citations · publishing 1974-1977
Papers
Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social Change
Review of Religious Research January 1, 1976 Ralph W. Hood, Erika Bourguignon 174 citations
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Altered States of Consciousness within a General Evolutionary Perspective: A Holocultural Analysis
Behavior Science Research August 1, 1977 Erika Bourguignon, Thomas L. Evascu 76 citations
A reanalysis of earlier data finds that the cultural patterning of altered states of consciousness (trance) follows a general evolutionary scale of sociocultural behavior. Global correlations using holocultural methodology show trance type to be positively correlated with four evolutionary variables: two related to societal complexity and two related to subsistence economy.