Ann Taves | OCCULT MINDS | Esotericism as Cognition and Culture

14 Aug

Building Blocks of Human Experience – website launched

A big part of my collaboration with Ann Taves at UCSB focused on developing the “building block approach” to complex cultural concepts. We have both published on this over the past few years (see Taves 2015, Asprem 2015, Taves and...
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22 Aug

Secrecy, cognition, and building blocks in Erfurt

This coming week, religion scholars from all over the world descend upon Erfurt, Germany, for the quinquennial conference of the International Association for the History of Religion (IAHR). I am writing this post from the comfort of a Deutsche Bahn...
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10 Jul

Forthcoming publications: reverse engineering, building blocks, and event cognition

I am happy to announce that two publications related to the Occult Minds project have been accepted for publication in top religious studies journals over the past week. The first of these, “Experience as Event,” is a co-authored article with...
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