Steps Towards a "Universal Religious Grammar".

• Autores: Lluís Oviedo, Manuel Canteras
• Localización: Antonianum, ISSN 0003-6064, Nº. 3 (Iulius-September), 2013, págs. 431-452
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The new scientific study of religion tries to identify universal patterns at various levels. Inside this program there arises the hypothesis of a possible "universal religious grammar". To test that hypothesis, eight samples totalling 1700 students, from 8 different religious and cultural populations, have been surveyed using a specifically designed questionnaire of 65 items. The main goal was to assess levels and forms of self-transcendence as a measure of religious cognition. The data obtained has been processed applying factor analysis and comparing the ways in which the items become clustered in each case. It is proposed here that some broadly shared factors thus far obtained could represent a prime architectural framework of religious cognition, even if the collected evidence cannot be understood as a proof for the existence of an "universal religious grammar".