BA/MA Seminar: Religion in the Laboratory
Dienstag, 05.12.2023
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This course analyses the various ways in which religion has become part of experimental settings. Over the course of the last two centuries, different groups of researchers have tried to take various parts of the concept religion, such as extraordinary experiences or the belief in supernatural beings, and subject them to experimentation. The reasons differ widely: near-death researchers try to prove the existence of life after death, cognitive scientists want to show that religion originates in our minds, while social psychologists try to figure out exactly what it means for a person to be religious. Yet whatever the goal, religion has proven hard to pin down, and even harder to successfully experiment with. How can one reliably test the truth claims inherent in religious experiences? How to reassure that cognitive models applied fit more than just Western Christianity? And how to reliably measure ‘religiosity’ in the first place? Rather than trying to answer these questions, the course will utilize theoretical models from the science of religion as well as science studies to identify how religious experimenters, neuro-cognitive scientists, and social psychologists have struggled with the above questions to experimentally shed light on some of the most elusive (or: constructed?) parts of human culture: ‘religion.’
| Veranstaltungsart: | Vorlesung/Seminar |
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| Dozierende(r): | Prof. Dr. Jens Schlieter, Bastiaan Benjamin van Rijn |
| 05.12.2023: | 10:15 - 12:00 |
| Ort: |
Unitobler Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern 1. UG, F-104 |
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