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Power, other-worldliness, and the extended mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2018

ADAM GREEN
ADAM GREEN*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, USA
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e-mail: agreen@apu.edu
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Abstract

In this article, I use the extended mind literature to elucidate religious phenomena that are normally left well outside the purview of analytic philosophy of religion. I show that the extended mind literature casts light on how the potential relationships of the ordinary believer to extra-natural power dictate cross-culturally re-occurring ways of structuring religious praxis. This application of the extended mind illuminates a diverse but subtly interconnected set of religious phenomena, from the cross-cultural appeal of magic as a negative category to the role of other-worldliness in the major world religions.

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Religious Studies , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , September 2020 , pp. 370 - 389
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018

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