RT Article
T1 Constructing Religion Without the Social: Durkheim, Latour, and Extended Cognition
JF Zygon
VO 44
IS 3
SP 719
OP 737
A1 Day, Matthew
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827961031
AB Abstract. I take up the question of how models of extended cognition might redirect the academic study of religion. Entering into a conversation of sorts with Emile Durkheim and Bruno Latour regarding the “overtakenness” of social agency, I argue that a robust portrait of extended cognition must redirect our interest in explaining religion in two key ways. First, religious studies should take up the methodological principle of symmetry that informs contemporary histories of science and begin theorizing the efficacy of gods as social actors. Second, theorists of religion should begin noting how the work required to construct spaces in which the gods appear depends on the construction of disciplined and capable subjects.
K1 sociology of associations
K1 Bruno Latour
K1 extended cognition
K1 Emile Durkheim
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.01026.x