Circling Science

4E Cognitive Science and the Transformative Study of Religion

John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro · 2025

Evidence
Conceptual work
Kind
Book chapter
Method
Conceptual argument for participatory teaching
Published
Embodied Pedagogies in the Study of Religion (Routledge), 32–43
Practices
Authentic Relating

Applied

Uses or discusses the practice in another field.

Argues for participatory exercises in teaching the study of religion, including authentic relating exercises alongside mindfulness, improvisation and philosophical dialogue.

What it doesn’t show

A teaching proposal, not a study of the practice.

Summary based on the publisher’s abstract.

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Vervaeke, J., & Mastropietro, C. (2025). 4E Cognitive Science and the Transformative Study of Religion. Embodied Pedagogies in the Study of Religion (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032685304-4