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"The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the first until the fourth century AD, rivaling the early growth and development of Christianity during the same period. As its membership was largely drawn from the ranks of the military, its spread, but not its popularity is attributable largely to military deployments and re-deployments. Although mithraists left behind no written archival evidence, there is an abundance of iconographic finds. The only characteristic common to all Mithraic temples were the fundamental architecture of their design, and the cult image of Mithras slaying a bull. How were these two features so faithfully transmitted through the Empire by a non-centralized, non-hierarchical religious movement? The Minds of Mithraists: Historical and Cognitive Studies in the Roman Cult of Mithras addresses these questions as well as the relationship of Mithraism to Christianity, explanations of the significance of the tauroctony and of the rituals enacted in the mithraea, and explanations for the spread of Mithraism (and for its resistance in a few places). The unifying theme throughout is an investigation of the 'mind' of those engaged in the cult practices of this widespread ancient religion. These investigations represent traditional historical methods as well as more recent studies employing the insights of the cognitive sciences, demonstrating that cognitive historiography is a valuable methodological tool."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Mithraism. --- Cognition and culture. --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) --- Zoroastrianism

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This book presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment of culture in human lives.

Culture --- Social sciences --- Semiotics --- Cognition and culture. --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Psychological aspects. --- Methodology.

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This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual system. Members of a cultural community share the system but not all of the system's content, making culture a system of parallel distributed cognition. This book presents such a system, and then elaborates a version of "cultural models" that relates actions to goals, values, emotional content, and context, and that allows both systematic generative capacity and systematic variation across cultural and subcultural groups. Such models are offered as the basic units of cultural action. Culture thus conceived is shown as a tool that people use rather than as something deeply internalized in their psyches.

Cognition and culture. --- Culture. --- Distributed cognition. --- Cognition --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Culture and cognition --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Social aspects --- Cognitive Anthropology. --- Pragmatics. --- Semiotics.

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Using the interpersonal event as the unit of analysis, this work examines how children interactively co-construct knowledge and ways of knowing social contexts, through a range of contributing motivational and emotional factors.

Cognition in children --- Cognition and culture. --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Cognition (Child psychology) --- Thought and thinking in children --- Child psychology --- Social aspects.

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" ... an interdisciplinary forum for exploring the mental foundations of culture and the cultural foundations of mental life. The primary focus of the journal is on explanations of cultural phenomena in terms of acquisition, representation and transmission involving cognitive capacities without excluding the study of cultural differences. The journal contains articles, commentaries, reports of experiments, and book reviews that emerge out of the inquiries by, and conversations between, scholars in experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition, neuroscience, human evolution, cognitive science of religion, and cognitive anthropology"--Journal home page

Cognition --- Cognition and culture --- Cognition. --- Cognition and culture. --- Culture and cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Cognitive Science. --- Ethnic & Cultural Studies. --- Cognitive Function --- Cognitions --- Cognitive Functions --- Function, Cognitive --- Functions, Cognitive --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology --- Psychology