20 November 2022

Methodological Issues in the Study of Supernatural Beliefs: Roundtable 2

Summary

The second roundtable brings together historical, sociological, physiological, and cross-cultural perspectives. The discussion focuses on how to connect micro-level and macro-level evidence: individual experience, qualitative context, historical sources, large surveys, cultural comparison, and embodied measures. It treats collaboration across methods as a practical necessity, because supernatural beliefs are simultaneously cognitive, social, historical, and cultural phenomena.