A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction (How to Define the Word "Religion" and Related Primers, #3)

How do humans process "what is before us"?
The answer is construction. Those familiar with Kenneth Gergen's interpretive psychology are acquainted with one type of construction: social construction. But what contrasts with social construction? The answer is: sensible construction.
Pascal Boyer's experimental research into the religious experience provides the key differentiator between these two types of construction. The content beneath sensible construction is intuitively sensical. The cont...