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SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen
DTSTART:20191118T171500Z
DTEND:20191118T184500Z
DTSTAMP:20260528T202116Z
UID:khk-monday-meeting-gastvortrag-jsoerensen-6873@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Discussions and disputes about the reality\, role and importan
 ce of analytic constructs such as ‘world-view’\, ‘religious traditio
 n’\, or ‘culture’ seem endemic to the academic study of religion. De
 spite decades of often harsh critique\, such concepts seem to be idealizat
 ions hard to do without\, functioning as they do\, as means to capture and
  direct attention towards apparent conceptual and behavioral continuities.
  But how do we model these local stabilities without falling into the trap
  of reification and cultural determinism? Taking its point of departure in
  the so-called “epidemiology of representations” proposed by Dan Sperb
 er\, this lecture will investigate an understanding of religion as an exam
 ple of an (emerging) “culturo-immunological” system\, that regulates t
 he boundaries of human cooperative and communicative units. Inspired by di
 scussions in theoretical biology of what constitutes and organism and by n
 eurocognitive models of ‘Predictive Processing\,” I shall tentatively 
 present a model of how cultural systems\, such as religions\, stabilize an
 d how specific cognitive and social processes immunize these systems again
 st both internal semantic decay and external destructive forces.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/khk-monday-meeting-gastvor
 trag-jsoerensen/
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