1st Edition
Correlative Worldviews A Cognitive Perspective on Premodern Cosmologies in South Asia and Europe
By Per-Johan Norelius
Copyright 2027
288 Pages
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Routledge
This book explores the topic of correlative worldviews from a comparative and cognitive perspective. Correlative worldviews are premodern cosmologies that posit linkages between different planes of existence, e.g. between the elements of the body and of the cosmos. Unlike the correlations of modern science, such linkages are not primarily causal in nature but are based on perceived resemblance... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Categorization and cognition: how correlations are made 3. Classifying space: cosmology and correlative thought 4. Microcosmos: the body as the world 5. Soul and cosmos 6. General conclusion
Biography
Per-Johan Norelius is an associate professor of History of Religions in the Department of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
