ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 discusses cognitive models, prototype effects, embodied cognition, frames, and domains. It first introduces the issue of how we categorize reality before providing an overview of the notion of idealized cognitive models and the prototype effects that characterize them. This is then connected to embodied cognition: the idea that our minds and the way people think are shaped by the fact that they are part of a human body that constantly interacts with the physical environment in specific ways. It then explores how this accounts for similarities in how religious believers talk about the divine across a wide range of different belief communities. Frames and domains are then explored, with an emphasis on their connection to embodied cognition and the tendency of religious language to draw on physical, concrete domains to talk about the spiritual.
