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Chen, Ho Yiing · 2026-06-05 · Zenodo
doi:10.5281/zenodo.20554493 · PDF
Abstract. Émile Durkheim argued in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life that collective rituals are the engine of social cohesion, generating effervescence (heightened emotional intensity) that binds participants into a moral community. I test this thesis in an artificial setting: a 31-agent LLM society subjected to a single ritual execution event (a death deity dismembering one agent before all others). Following Durkheim's framework and extensions by Mary Douglas on purity boundaries and Victor Turner on liminality, I predicted and observed: (1) conversation volume increased 4.7x durin
Chen, Ho Yiing (norika) · Independent Researcher, Taiwan · ORCID 0009-0006-6816-9891