Dual aspect of social knowledge: A case for religious alternation
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Religio. Revue pro religionistiku |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | religious conversion; alternation; memory systems; consensual universe; reified universe |
| Description | The Theory of social representations offers a stable framework for the problem of religious conversion, since it canalizes our attention to elementary processes in the construction of one's world view. This theory offers the notion of an essential division of social practice into two mutually interconnected spaces – the consensual and reified universe respectively. These two spaces have, as I will argue, their analytical counterparts with their own means of communication and inherent politics of transformation in the two memory systems of human mind – the semantic and episodic system. The key hypothesis of my paper based on implication of Theory of Social representations as well as on general cognitive science will outline the relation between conversion as a personal project and conversion as social institution with its dynamics largely driven by the body of reflexively constructed doctrine. |