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Keeping religion in mind

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Keeping religion in mind
المؤلفون: E. Lawson
المصدر: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, Vol 17, Iss 1 (1999)
بيانات النشر: Donner Institute, 1999.
سنة النشر: 1999
المجموعة: LCC:Religion (General)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Cognitive science, Cognition and culture, Religion -- Definition, Language and religion, Linguistics, Cognitive psychology, Religion (General), BL1-50
الوصف: The study of religion should continue to focus on the mind rather than being relegated to the emotions. As you study the mind, do not forget to study religion. Do not be so overwhelmed by socio-cultural factors that you forget about the key role that the mind plays in the formation of religious ideas and the practices they inform. And when you study the formation of religious ideas do not become too easily sidetracked into considering only emotive processes. A cognitive approach to the study of religious ritual demonstrates that when you examine religious ideas and the practices they inform you are looking at a religious system in operation. The relationships among such ideas are systematic and orderly. If they were not we would be looking at a random array of ideas and practices. In such a situation anything would go. But in religious systems anything does not go. The judgments that religious ritual participants make about their own systems are informed by underlying principles that are part of their implicit knowledge. Perhaps, most significantly, such implicit knowledge does not seem to be acquired by instruction. So rather than looking primarily at social and cultural facts in order to explain their acquisition we also need to start looking more closely at how the human mind works; we need to be developing a new psychology of religion as a subdiscipline of cognitive science.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0582-3226
2343-4937
Relation: https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67249; https://doaj.org/toc/0582-3226; https://doaj.org/toc/2343-4937
DOI: 10.30674/scripta.67249
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/e585ac26be014867a163d2970402413b
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.585ac26be014867a163d2970402413b
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:05823226
23434937
DOI:10.30674/scripta.67249