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SUMMARY:The Anatomy of Unbelief: Rethinking the Scientific Approaches to N
 onreligion - Dr Mari van Emmerik\, University of Cambridge 
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CONTACT:Alice Jackson
DESCRIPTION:On 25th April at 1pm Dr Mari van Emmerik will give a seminar e
 ntitled ‘The Anatomy of Unbelief: Rethinking the Scientific Approaches t
 o Nonreligion'.\n\nA light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30pm in
  the Healey Room\, Westminster College\, Cambridge.\n\nhttps://faradayinst
 itute.online/Emmerik\n\nAbstract\n\nOne of the major recent moves in the s
 cholarship on nonreligion and secularism has been marked by turning away f
 rom the neat binaries and the negative identities signalled by atheism and
  agnosticism (e.g.\, Taves\, Asprem and Ihm 2018). However\, these binarie
 s are deeply ingrained in the Western landscape of ideas about the nature 
 of mind/ body relationship and the nature of belief/ unbelief and are satu
 rated by a level of "somatophobia" berated by Manuel Vásquez (2011: 89).\
 n\nIn this talk\, I will revisit Donna Haraway's concept of "situated know
 ledges" and her critique of the disembodied scientific objectivity\, argui
 ng for the embodied and encultured nature of the "partial perspective"\, w
 hich considers both the agency of the theorist producing the knowledge and
  the historical placement of the object of study (Haraway 1988).  I will 
 apply this critique to the scientific approach to the study of nonreligion
  called cognitive science of religion (CSR) as I investigate the "C" (cogn
 ition) and the "R" (religion and nonreligion) models employed by this fiel
 d. At the end of the talk\, I will propose a biocultural approach\, that r
 eplaces the computational paradigm in CSR with 4E cognition paradigm\, whi
 ch views the mind as physically embodied\, culturally embedded\, socially 
 extended and enactive\; and the belief/ unbelief binary with material nonr
 eligion and secularisms.
LOCATION:Healey Room\, Westminster College
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