Investigating the Structure of Religious Concepts: A Few Remarks from the Perspective of Enactivism and Cognitive Linguistics
The aim of the paper is to discuss the possible application of the theory of embodied cognition and the category of image schemata to the study of religious concepts within the Cognitive Science of Religion. Departing from the notion of counterintuitiveness and Boyer’s description of religious repre...
| Published in: | Open theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2016
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Open theology
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| Further subjects: | B
Enactivism
B Modern Postural Yoga B image schemata B Ritual Studies B Sāṃkhya-Yoga B Embodied Cognition B counterintuitiveness B ontological categories B enaction |
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| Summary: | The aim of the paper is to discuss the possible application of the theory of embodied cognition and the category of image schemata to the study of religious concepts within the Cognitive Science of Religion. Departing from the notion of counterintuitiveness and Boyer’s description of religious representations as minimally counterintuitive, the author briefly discusses the critique of this approach. Subsequently, different models of mind and cognition within the Cognitive Science are summarised, with special attention given to the enactive approach, as proposed by Varela, Thompson and Rosch. The notion of embodied meaning, situated within enactivism, is then discussed, together with Johnson’s concept of image schemata as basic semantic units. To discuss the applicability of image schemata in the study of religious concepts, the author summarises a case study, related to the interpretation of the categories of sāṃkhya-yoga darśana in Iyengar Yoga. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-6579 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Open theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/opth-2016-0007 |