Tell Me a Story: Religion, Imagination, and Narrative Involvement
Sacred stories and religious texts play a central role in religion, yet there is a paucity of research investigating the relationship between religiosity and individual differences in how people engage with stories. Here, we examine the relationship between religiosity, as well as a belief in God, a...
| Published in: | Journal for the cognitive science of religion |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Imagination & Religion |
| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox Publ.
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal for the cognitive science of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Story
/ Religiosity
/ Faith
/ Parasoziale Interaktion
/ Imagination
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
/ Religious psychology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion |
| Further subjects: | B
parasociability
B Narrative B Religion B transportability B imaginative resistance B Story |
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| Summary: | Sacred stories and religious texts play a central role in religion, yet there is a paucity of research investigating the relationship between religiosity and individual differences in how people engage with stories. Here, we examine the relationship between religiosity, as well as a belief in God, and three variables related to how individuals interact with narratives: a tendency to become absorbed in stories (transportability), a tendency to form relationships with the characters in stories (parasociability), and a reluctance to imaginatively engage with immoral fictions (imaginative resistance). Although transportability was only weakly related to intrinsic religiosity, both parasociability and imaginative resistance were correlated with a range of religiosity measures. Notably, the relationship between parasociability and religiosity was mediated by personal involvement with religious texts. |
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| ISSN: | 2049-7563 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.37491 |