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Building-Block Cognitive Analysis: The Road to Emmaus and Haunted House Stories
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 11, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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unstable, angels, appearing, cognitive, scientifically, Jesus, doing, meal, throes, memory, suffer, components, sword, other, tomb, tendency, disturbed, religion, nouns, struggles, haunted, grief, themselves
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the building block approach to                 
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break a story down into its blocks and                     
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one finds stories with some blocks added or removed, and it changes the story
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the concepts of religion, magic and superstition are                 
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other cultures don't necessarily have a concept that translates directly into what we generally think of as religion
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to approach religion                             , we has to figure out how to express the phenomena that we want to explain
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instead of words that are usually expressed as            e.g.
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religion
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philosophy
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superstition
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we have to talk in terms of what people are            or things that are happening in terms of an event or a behavior that an individual or a group is doing
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resurrection
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Christianity
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basic form
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Apostle's creed
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Jesus rose from the dead
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what we have are accounts of Jesus                    to disciples
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The Road to Emmaus
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two of Jesus' disciples walking to Emmaus
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had heard that              had appeared and reported that Jesus was still living
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Jesus had died not that long before
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they are deeply                    since they didn't expect that a Messiah would be crucified and die on a cross
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a stranger joins in their conversation and suggests they should read their own scripture which explained that Jesus would have to              and die
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they convince the stranger to join them for a          in Emmaus
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during the meal, they suddenly realize that the stranger is           
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this story can be broken down into building blocks
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emotion
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           of his followers
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priming
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the experience of the women at the          who had the vision of the angels
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represents a prime in psychological terms
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it primed them to think that Jesus might still be alive
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cognitive dissonance
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a predisposition to believe a certain way
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unlikely occurance
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appearance of a stranger
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synchronous event
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Jesus appears right in the midst of their                   
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             cue
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the breaking of the bread reminded them the last time he broke bread
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mystery
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the minute they recognize him, he was gone
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we can use these building blocks to analyze            stories
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a castle people claim is               
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a person who doesn't believe in ghosts goes
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just as the point that he is announcing he doesn't believe in ghosts, a            falls off the wall and narrowly misses his arm
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the first thing that pops into his mind is: it's a ghost
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but he's not in the              of grief, so we remove the grief block
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priming block: the castle is haunted
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synchronous event: sword falls just as he states there are no ghosts
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humans have a                  to think that correlated events must have some kind of meaning
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fear: new block
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sword falls very close to his arm
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these stories thus have components that are similar at a                    level
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when we take a building block approach, we don't have to be so concerned if we are talking about religion or haunted houses
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we analyze the events and behaviors                     
The Landscape of Religious Belief and Practice
Building-Block Cognitive Analysis: The Road to Emmaus and Haunted House Stories