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A cognitive typology of religious actions

Abstract:: The rapid but disproportionate growth of the cognitive science of religion in some areas, coupled with the desire to meaningfully connect with more traditional, function-inspired classifications, has left the filed with an incomplete and sometimes inconsistent typology of religious and related actions. We address this shortcoming by proposing a systematic typology of counterintuitive actions based on their cognitive representational structures. This typology may serve as the framework of a research program that seeks to establish (1) psychologically, whether each class of events receives different cognitive treatment within a given context and similar representation across contexts; and (2) anthropologically, whether the different classes are characterized by different performance frequencies, social functions, and kinds of interpretations, making them useful explanatory and predictive distinctions.

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Barrett, J., & Malley, B. (2007). A cognitive typology of religious actions. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 7(3-4), 201–211.

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Barrett, J, and B Malley. “A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions.” Journal of Cognition and Culture, vol. 7, nos. 3-4, 2007, pp. 201–11.

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Barrett, J, and B Malley. 2007. “A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 7 (3-4): 201–11.
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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: SAME
Sub department:: Social & Cultural Anthropology
Role:: Author

+ Malley, B More by this author

Institution:: University of Michigan
Department:: Department of Psychology
Role:: Author

Publisher:: Brill
Journal:: Journal of Cognition and Culture More from this journal
Volume:: 7
Issue:: 3-4
Pages:: 201-211
Publication date:: 2007-01-01
DOI:: 10.1163/156853707X208486
EISSN:: 1568-5373
ISSN:: 1567-7095

Language:: English
Subjects:: Anthropology
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Deposit date:: 2009-11-27
ARK identifier:: ark:/29072/ora_e2b55c50eafb4f0a93785a6133d627ea

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Copyright holder:: Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
Copyright date:: 2007

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