Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience

古代宗教经验的认知方法

• 批准号: AH/M006352/1
• 负责人: Esther Eidinow
• 金额: $ 4.85万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM006352%2F1
• 关键词: Cognitive; Approaches; Ancient; Religious; Experience

The proposed network brings together scholars studying ancient Greek and Roman religions, and those using cognitive approaches, to investigate the nature of individual religious experiences, examining how models and data from one discipline can inform and challenge, test and refine those of the other. Individual religious experience is generally assumed to be hidden, inaccessible within the minds of its subjects making research on it impossible. This is particularly true of the experiences of those in historical periods. In scholarship on ancient religions, this has meant that the debate has become focused on the roles and activities of social groups and external actions, with little idea of how to access the interior experiences of historical subjects. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) offers an opportunity to cross this barrier. However, it too has limitations: scholars who work with various cognitive approaches are largely concerned with modern, western individuals. Although this research may help to investigate and clarify aspects of contemporary religion in western societies, and may entail claims about the universal nature of humanity's cognitive proclivities, it is nevertheless often untested by historical data, or, often, data from other cultures. Those projects that do attempt to work with historical data tend to take a quantitative approach, rather than trying to apply experimental methodology to examine qualitative data, which involves a change in how scientists think about their subject.The network aims to bring together many of the theoretical assumptions, methodologies, and results of CSR. However, it aims to proceed beyond cognition in individualistic and mentalistic terms, and expand the understanding of cognition as consisting of individuals in full interaction with culture. Through two workshops the network will address:- The value of adopting a historical perspective in the investigation of the cognitive aspects of religious experience, providing scholars who study cognitive approaches to religion invaluable data and case studies to test and refine their findings.- The value of introducing new cognitive methodologies into historical research, offering scholars of ancient religions new ways to examine the changing individual experiences of historical subjects.- How cognitive and historical disciplines can collaborate to develop new approaches to, and understandings of religious experience.A final conference will present findings from the workshops and also promote interaction with scholars of religion in other historical periods, along with invited guests from relevant business, cultural and policy organisations, with the aim of expanding the network and its impact.Through this collaborative process scholars of both disciplines will be assisted in moving beyond their usual assumptions, gaining new perspectives, developing new questions and approaches to data, working with new evidence and methodologies. As well as helping to forge a common discourse of research, the network aims to contribute to relevant public and policy conversations concerning, for example, the nature and role of religious experience in modern societies, and the place of individual religious experience in modern culture, through the dissemination of its findings.

该网络将研究古希腊和罗马宗教的学者以及使用认知方法的学者聚集在一起，调查个人宗教体验的本质，研究一个学科的模型和数据如何为另一个学科的模型和数据提供信息、挑战、测试和改进。个人的宗教体验通常被认为是隐藏的，无法进入其受试者的思想，因此对其进行研究是不可能的。历史时期的人的经历尤其如此。在古代宗教的学术研究中，这意味着争论已经集中在社会群体的角色和活动以及外部行为上，而很少考虑如何进入历史主体的内部体验。宗教认知科学（CSR）提供了一个跨越这一障碍的机会。然而，它也有局限性：研究各种认知方法的学者主要关注现代西方个体。尽管这项研究可能有助于调查和澄清西方社会当代宗教的各个方面，并可能涉及人类认知倾向的普遍性，但它往往未经历史数据或来自其他文化的数据的检验。那些试图处理历史数据的项目倾向于采用定量方法，而不是试图应用实验方法来检查定性数据，这涉及到科学家对其主题的看法的改变。该网络旨在汇集企业社会责任的许多理论假设、方法和结果。然而，它旨在超越个人主义和心理主义的认知，并将认知扩展为个体与文化充分互动的认知。通过两个研讨会，该网络将讨论：-在宗教经验认知方面的调查中采用历史视角的价值，为研究宗教认知方法的学者提供宝贵的数据和案例研究，以检验和完善他们的发现。-在历史研究中引入新的认知方法的价值，为古代宗教学者提供新的方法来研究历史主体不断变化的个体经验。-认知和历史学科如何合作，以发展对宗教经验的新方法和理解。最后的会议将展示研讨会的成果，并促进与其他历史时期的宗教学者的互动，以及来自相关商业、文化和政策组织的受邀嘉宾，目的是扩大网络及其影响。通过这种合作过程，这两个学科的学者将有助于超越他们通常的假设，获得新的视角，开发新的问题和数据方法，使用新的证据和方法。除了帮助形成共同的研究话语外，该网络还旨在通过传播其研究结果，促进有关的公共和政策对话，例如，宗教经验在现代社会中的性质和作用，以及个人宗教经验在现代文化中的地位。

项目成果

The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals A Study in Mistrust

古希腊法尔科斯仪式对不信任的研究

• DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341662
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Numen
• 作者: Eidinow E

Ancient Cultures

古代文化

• DOI: 10.1353/mrw.2019.0006
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
• 作者: Eidinow E

Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis - Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz

进化、认知和宗教史：新的综合 - 纪念阿明·W·格尔茨的纪念文集

• DOI: 10.1163/9789004385375_031
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Eidinow E

Witchcraft and Psychosis: Perspectives from Psychopathology and Cultural Neuroscience

巫术和精神病：精神病理学和文化神经科学的视角

• DOI: 10.1353/mrw.2019.0002
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
• 作者: Deeley Q

Religious Individualisation - Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives

宗教个体化——历史维度和比较视角

• DOI: 10.1515/9783110580853-027
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Eidinow E