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Justin L. Barrett
Researcher at Fuller Theological Seminary
Publications - 88
Citations - 4514
Justin L. Barrett is an academic researcher from Fuller Theological Seminary. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive science of religion & Counterintuitive. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 88 publications receiving 4225 citations. Previous affiliations of Justin L. Barrett include Calvin College & University of Michigan.
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Theological Correctness: Cognitive Constraint and the Study of Religion
TL;DR: Theological Correctness as mentioned in this paper is a concept that is used in both natural and religious thinking, and it can be used for data gathering and theorizing in the study of religion.
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Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how cognitive architecture informs and constrains conceptualizations of the Divine and found that concepts of gods must largely conform to the undergirding cognitive intuitive assumptions universally held for the ontological category of gods.
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Cognitive Science of Religion: What Is It and Why Is It?
TL;DR: Cognitive science of religion as mentioned in this paper brings theories from the cognitive sciences to bear on why religious thought and action is so common in humans and why religious phenomena take on the features that they do.
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The science of religious beliefs
TL;DR: The authors argue that implicit beliefs are informed and constrained by the natural and cross-culturally recurrent operation of implicit cognitive systems, and that successful god concepts resonate with the expectations of these implicit systems but also have attention-demanding and inferentially-rich properties that allow their integration into various areas of human concern.
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Coding and Quantifying Counterintuitiveness in Religious Concepts: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
TL;DR: Boyer's theory of counterintuitive cultural concept transmission as mentioned in this paper claims that concepts that violate naturally occurring intuitive knowledge structures enough to be attention-demanding but not so much to undermine conceptual coherence have a transmission advantage over other concepts (Boyer et al. 2001: 535-64).