PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA E RELIGIÃO: ANÁLISE EPISTEMOLÓGICA DA DINÂMICA TEORÉTICA DE PESQUISAS EM CIÊNCIA COGNITIVA DA RELIGIÃO (CCR)

Abstract

The article aims to present several facets of the study of the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), initially presenting it, and then discussing the different theoretical and epistemological approaches regarding the links between cognition and religion in the area, characterizing such theories as to their nature, objectives, internal dynamics, and consequences for the study of cognition, as well as how these links occur in terms of structure, form and content of religious thought. To this end, it uses a bibliography of interest to investigate the phenomena selected for its thematic relevance, using five articles to guide this theoretical study, and from them, intertwining various fields of study of CSR, namely: the research by Roazzi, Nyhof and Johnson on the cognitive origin of the notion of immaterial identities; Barrett's works that dealt with the basic perspectives for the construction and understanding of the CCR itself; the research by Lane, Wellman, and Evans that investigated the cognitive structures responsible for the notion of extraordinary minds; and, finally, the study by Nascimento and Roazzi that investigated the systematic interrelationship between self-awareness and the self-scheme of religiosity. Using the following articles as a guide, this work permeates state of the art in research in these different fields of investigation - nevertheless, so interrelated, in search of the weaving of their epistemological foundations. Finally, we present the consequences and outcomes of these studies in the large field of research in Cognitive Science of Religion and its implications for Cognitive Psychology.

Keywords: Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), Cognitive Psychology, Religion, Religiosity, Epistemology.