If disenchantment describes a historical loss of shared sacred frameworks, ritual is the concrete engine by which new frameworks can be installed and made believable. Anthropological and cognitive-scientific studies of ritual increasingly argue that ritual does not simply presuppose belief but actively generates and stabilizes it. 

Through repeated, structured, often effortful actions embedded in shared symbols, rituals shape and stabilize patterns of behavior in which a value system becomes experientially real, so that participants come to inhabit a common world by doing before fully assenting or understanding. In this perspective, religion and ritualized aspects of life are less systems of propositions than ensembles of practices through which a particular ontology is made experientially plausible and emotionally credible over time.

These approaches align with emerging neuropsychological work suggesting that ritual formats recruit basic mechanisms of attention, memory, and social learning in ways that make certain meanings feel real, durable, and collectively anchored. Rather than explaining away enchantment, they show that ritual is a powerful technology for shaping perception and conviction, furnishing a bridge between inner experience and shared worlds of significance in a post-Weberian age that understands itself as disenchanted. In this light, ritual reappears not as premodern residue but as a demonstrably powerful technology for shaping perception, conviction, and participation—precisely the terrain