Mind, Soul and Spirit: Conceptions of Immaterial Identity in Different Cultures

Roazzi, Maíra Monteiro; Nyhof, Melanie; Johnson, Carl N.

doi:10.1080/10508619.2013.735504

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“…This is just one example. We can ask similar questions about concepts of immaterial identity, such as mind, spirit, and soul, within and between cultures (Roazzi, Nyhof & Johnson, 2013).…”

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Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts: Identifying Building Blocks of “Religion”

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2015

J Cogn Cult

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Researchers have not yet done an adequate job of reverse engineering the complex cultural concepts of religion and spirituality in a way that allows scientists to operationalize component parts and historians of religion to consider how the component parts have been synthesized into larger socio-cultural wholes. Doing so involves two steps: (1) distinguishing between (a) the generic elements that structure definitions and (b) the specific features used to characterize the generic elements as “religious” or “sacred” and (2) disaggregating these specific features into more basic cognitive processes that scientists can operationalize and that historians can analyze in situ. Three more basic processes that interact on multiple levels are proposed: perceiving salience, assessing significance, and imagining hypothetical, counterfactual content.

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“…This is just one example. We can ask similar questions about concepts of immaterial identity, such as mind, spirit, and soul, within and between cultures (Roazzi, Nyhof & Johnson, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts: Identifying Building Blocks of “Religion”

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2015

J Cogn Cult

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“…Just as the concept of soul does not appear to reduce to the concept of mind, Roazzi, Nyhof, and Johnson (2013) have proposed that the concept of spirit may have still other intuitive roots. Cohen and Barrett (2008), in their work on spirit possession, argued that it is intuitively processed as a mind possession, thus equating mind to spirit.…”

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“…Cohen and Barrett (2008), in their work on spirit possession, argued that it is intuitively processed as a mind possession, thus equating mind to spirit. In contrast, Roazzi et al (2013) argued that the concept of spirit originally refers to the vital force of life. In this account, spiritual ideas do not primarily emerge from concepts of mind and agency, but from concepts of life and energy.…”

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“…Anthropological accounts also portray people's concepts of spirit as being similar to that of a supernatural agent, such as a ghost (Cohen, 2007). To examine these differences Roazzi et al (2013) tested adult's inferences about mind and soul as well as spirit. Their study was the first to compare intuitions about these three concepts together in the context of considering how different cultures and religions may recruit similar or different intuitive ideas.…”

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“…However in order to advance towards this goal, it is important to first grasp a better understanding of what this reasoning process evokes. Roazzi et al (2013) revealed that intuitions on energy don't necessarily hold a one to one correspondence to either mind, soul, or spirit. In addition, the authors claim that their results were limited to the language terminology that they used, as they come to capture these terms.…”

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Literature investigating people’s concepts of supernatural agency (such as ghosts and deities) points to an intuitive theory of mind underlying such ideas, however, recent studies suggest that intuitive ideas over vital energy could also be involved. The present paper focuses on examining the culture and development of people’s conceptions on vital energy. A search was made using the keyword vital energy targeting literature from Anthropology, Psychology and Cognitive Science. A literature review over this topic was made yielding reflections over the development of vital energy concepts. Results suggest that an intuitive biology, grounded on ideas of biological energy (vital energy), may underlie an understanding of soul, spirit, and supernatural energy. Future empirical studies should target the development of vital energy intuitive theories with different age ranges and cultures.

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Mind, Soul and Spirit: Conceptions of Immaterial Identity in Different Cultures

Cited by 38 publications

References 8 publications

Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts: Identifying Building Blocks of “Religion”

Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts: Identifying Building Blocks of “Religion”

Vital Energy and Afterlife: Implications for Cognitive Science of Religion

Antecedents, Manifestations, and Consequences of Belief in Mind–Body Dualism

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