Cognitivism ask why nonliterate cultural arrangements should be excluded from scholarly treatments of religions. They disagree that texts and textually based traditions are eitherall or even the most basic religious phenomena. They maintain that such materials are susceptible to cognitive analyses and that the thinner, cognitive conception of tradition will cast a wider net that captures both textual materials and practices, rituals, spaces, buildings, artifacts, experiences, and so on accorded religious significance. Approaches to religions eschewing the cognitive sciences’ theories, findings, and research tools needlessly deprive scholars of resources that: