RT Article
T1 Religious Cognition as Social Cognition
JF Studia religiologica
VO 48
IS 4
SP 301
OP 312
A1 Eyghen, Hans van ca. 21. Jh.
LA English
PB Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1761100645
AB In this paper, I examine the relationship between social cognition and religious cognition. Many cognitive theories of religion claim that these two forms are somehow related, but the details are usually left unexplored and insights from theories of social cognition are not taken on board. I discuss the three main (groups of) theories of social cognition, namely the theory-theory, the simulation theory and enactivist theories. Secondly, I explore how these theories can help to enrich a number of cognitive theories of religion. The theories I discuss are Stewart Guthrie’s anthropomorphism, Justin Barrett’s hyperactive agency detection device, Jesse Bering’s existential theory of mind, Pascal Boyer’s minds with full strategic access and Tanya Luhrmann’s porous theory of mind. Finally, I look at how enrichment with insights from social cognition can help to combine different existing theories of religious cognition into a unified framework.
K1 enaktywizm
K1 poznanie społeczne
K1 religioznawstwo kognitywne
K1 teoria symulacji
K1 teoria teorii
DO 10.4467/20844077SR.15.022.4761