From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture (review)

The Role of Ethics in Cognition and Sociological Analysis of Traditional Oral Tales (Folk Tales) of Isfahan Province Popular Culture

Background: Isfahan, with a history of several thousand years, is a unique treasure of folklore and culture, and oral stories among its people are one of the oldest examples of thinking and imagination of the people of this province, which shows their quality and mental issues and sorrow. It is a valid and useful document of the social history of these people. This study aims to investigate the...

Christianity and Popular Culture

[Understanding popular health education: a review of the Brazilian literature].

This article reviews the Brazilian literature on popular health education, a theoretical area that includes a relevant group of the country's public health researchers and political activists. This was a qualitative, exploratory, analytical study. Based on a search in the SciELO database and books and book chapters, we systematized the academic output on popular health education in Brazil. The ...

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Review of Steven Stich's "From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science"

The amateurish psychological analyses our mothers make and the study of social psychology must each be abandoned by those interested in developing a truly scientific study of cognition. Similarly, any school of psychology which refers to the referents or semantic elements of mentalistic terms must be dismissed as unlikely to contribute to the science of cognition. This would include such additi...