Religion, Cognition, and the Myth of Conscious Will
Characteristic of the recent cognitive approach to religion (CSR) is the thesis that religious discourse and practice are rooted in an inveterate human propensity to explain events in terms of agent causality. This thesis readily lends itself to the critical understanding of religious belief as &quo...
| Τόπος έκδοσης: | Method & theory in the study of religion |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
[2019]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Έτος: 2019, Τόμος: 31, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 91-119 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
/ Θεωρία του νου
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | ΑΑ Θρησκειολογία AB Φιλοσοφία της θρησκείας, Κριτική της θρησκείας, Αθεϊσμός ΑΕ Ψυχολογία της θρησκείας VA Φιλοσοφία |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Θεωρία του νου
B Agency B Consciousness B Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) |
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| Σύνοψη: | Characteristic of the recent cognitive approach to religion (CSR) is the thesis that religious discourse and practice are rooted in an inveterate human propensity to explain events in terms of agent causality. This thesis readily lends itself to the critical understanding of religious belief as "our intuitive psychology run amok." This effective restriction of the scientific critique of agent causality to notions of supernatural agency appears arbitrary, however, in light of evidence from cognitive and social psychology that our sense of human agency, including our own, is interpretive in nature. In this paper I argue that a cognitive approach to religion that extends the critique of agent causality to the folk psychological experience of conscious will is able to shed light on several characteristically religious phenomena, such as spirit possession, ritual action, and spontaneous action in Zen Buddhism. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Αναφορά: | Kritik in "REDRUM (2019)"
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| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341437 |