Prayer and The Kingdom of Heaven

Humanism or transhumanism? Scissions of thought and the technological drift of science, a crisis for psychology ( ¿Humanismo o transhumanismo? Las escisiones del pensamiento y la deriva tecnológica de la ciencia, una crisis para la psicología )

“…The cultural fabric -more invisible to science and therefore much less investigated and known -is immensely rich and varied, evident and omnipresent in everyday culture, even today's culture. Cultures continue to treasure a varied wealth of mediations to reinforce and direct empathy and emotional interaction with others, to trace clues to the future and explore paths of behaviour not yet travelled but intuited or felt, such as myths or virtues, religion, poetry, all the arts and the very rich folklore (Álvarez & del Río, 1999;del Río & Álvarez, 1995del Río & Álvarez, , 2007b. Therefore, the dense fabric of cultural mediations has effectively served both LH and RH, and it would therefore be convenient to pay attention to the fabric of higher functions alternative or complementary to the intellectual ones (functions of feeling, as Vygotsky called them).…”

“…El tejido cultural -más invisible para la ciencia y por tanto mucho menos investigado y conocido -es inmensamente rico y variado, evidente y omnipresente en la cultura cotidiana, incluso en la actual. Las culturas siguen atesorando una variada riqueza de mediaciones para reforzar y dirigir la empatía y la interacción emocional con los otros, para trazar pistas hacia el futuro y explorar vías de conducta no recorridas aún pero intuidas o sentidas, como los mitos o las virtudes, la religión, la poesía, todas las artes y el riquísimo folklore (Álvarez & del Río, 1999;del Río & Álvarez, 1995del Río & Álvarez, , 2007b. Por lo tanto, el denso tejido de mediaciones culturales ha servido eficazmente tanto al HI como al HD, y convendría por ello atender al tejido de funciones superiores alternativas o complementarias a las intelectuales (funciones del sentimiento, las llamaba Vygotski).…”

Vygotsky and beyond: horizons for the future of psychology /Vygotski y más allá: horizontes para el futuro de la psicología

“…2. Eco-cultural research in the Syncretic Zone of Representation and the cultural miseen-scène we have referred to, cognitive ethnographies (Hutchins, 1995), or the use of verbal protocols in a cultural-historical perspective (see del Río & Álvarez, 2007b) can be some of the approaches useful to do so.…”

Religion made me free: Cultural construction of female religiosity

“…In relation to body and religion it is to notice how the gestural and postural communication requested by religious rituals function as a flexible operator for performing the mise-en-scene of ''entities from the beyond present to the here and now'' (del Rio & Alvarez, 2006). Such a ritual seems to stress the constant attempt to link the ''heaven'' to the ''earth'' just through a corporeal sense-making process.…”