IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1616: Patristics and Cognitive Sciences: Moving the Borders of Research
Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Vladimir Ivanovici, Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno / Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Uta Heil, Institut für Kirchengeschichte, Christliche Archäologie und Kirchliche Kunst, Universität Wien |
| Paper 1616-a | Christian Incubation and Cognitive Science of Religion: Possibilities and Problems (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Byzantine Studies, Medicine, Religious Life |
| Paper 1616-b | Patristics and the (Interdisciplinary) Study of Emotion (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Lay Piety, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | While scholars focusing on early Christianity have adapted concepts and methodologies developed across the Cognitive Sciences, Patristic scholars have been more reluctant to follow this path, despite the Church Fathers' lasting views on how body, mind, and affect function, and their shaping of the way Christians interact with the divine through the setting up of rituals that stimulated all aspects of embodied existence. The papers in this section use instruments developed in the Cognitive Sciences to review how late antique Church Fathers understood and sought to control various aspects of embodied existence (i.e., thoughts, dreaming, emotion). The session seeks to explore the possibilities and limits of this approach, thus redrawing the margins of research in Patristics. |