Camille Wingo, Pictures Making Beliefs: A Cognitive Technological Model for Ritual Efficacy

Authors

  • Gabriel Levy Norwegian University of Science and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.34683

Keywords:

Ritual, Cognitive science

Abstract

Camille Wingo, Pictures Making Beliefs: A Cognitive Technological Model for Ritual Efficacy (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2012), 238 pp. $30.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978-1-59460-973-2.

Author Biography

  • Gabriel Levy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    Gabriel Levy is a comparative historian of religion, specializing in Jewish studies. Gabriel Levy is Professor in the Science of Religion at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, where he teaches on method and theory in the scientific study of religion, middle-eastern religious history with focus on Judaism, and the relation between religion, science, and technology. Gabriel’s research is devoted to the comparative history of religion, with specialty in Jewish studies. Gabriel studies religions from a holistic perspective and looks for ways to integrate the harder sciences into scholarship in the humanities. He studies the ways religious individuals and groups imagine their communicative relations with superhuman agents, and particularly how various technologies of mediation, such as divination and literacy, change the way this relation is organized and embodied. To do this he draws on anthropology, philosophy, and the mind sciences. His most recent book uses insights from biology and the mind sciences to explore the effects of literacy on religious cognition and the origins of Judaism

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Published

2018-12-04

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017): Book Review Symposium: Jennifer Larson's 'Understanding Greek Religion', 2016

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Levy, G. (2018). Camille Wingo, Pictures Making Beliefs: A Cognitive Technological Model for Ritual Efficacy. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 4(1), 111-113. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.34683