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30 minutes
Released:
Dec 18, 2013
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In this second part we ask "the epistemic/ontological question": in studying these experiences, how far should we be concerned with the ontology? Would to do so be an abandonment of the scientific materialism which underpins the discipline, and therefore a slide back into theology? Or can there be a bigger model of materialism - a "complicated materialism", to use Ann Taves' expression - in which these phenomena might be suitably explicable?
Released:
Dec 18, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
See you in the next life? Cognitive foundations of reincarnation beliefs: Human reincarnation: Same person, different body, another life. While conceptual scaffolding surrounding the idea of reincarnation can vary widely from culture to culture, in this podcast Claire White draws on some of her recent research pointing out t... by The Religious Studies Project