ABSTRACT
This chapter presents case studies, which each in their own way illuminate possible modalities of religiosity. It also presents a theory of the extended sensorium as an alternative to the mentalism, and privileging of the brain and cognition, in the conventional Western "scientific" account of perception—including the theory of the extended mind. Just as the conventional "scientific" understanding of perception stands in need of revision from an anthropological perspective, so does the preoccupation with the transcendental or "metaphysical" in the conventional Western definition of religion. Donald Tuzin's analysis of the roots of religious experience in "Miraculous Voices" goes along with Meyer's material and sensual definition of religion. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva presents an extremely fine sensory analysis of the fabrication and veneration of religious images in medieval Byzantium. Pentecostalism belongs to the same Protestant tradition of Christianity as Quakerism, and places a similar emphasis on the "inner life" and spontaneity.
