Tamer M Soliman

It's Not "All in Your Head": Understanding Religion From an Embodied Cognition Perspective.

Perspectives on Psychological Science November 1, 2015 Tamer M Soliman, Kathryn A Johnson, Hyunjin Song

Theorists and researchers in the psychology of religion have often focused on the mind as the locus of religion. In this article, we suggest an embodied cognition perspective as a new dimension in studies of religion as a complement to previous research and theorizing. In contrast to the Cartesian view of the mind operating distinctly from the body, an embodied cognition framework posits...