Hearing Voices, Interpreting Words
In this commentary I will be exploring a number of implications that McCauley and Graham’s theses about the interrelationship of normal, religious, and mentally disordered cognition have for an interpretative methodology that has been fruitfully utilized by empirically-oriented scholars of religion....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2021
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| In: |
Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-20 |
| Review of: | Hearing voices and other matters of the mind (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020) (Gardiner, Mark Q.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religious experience
/ Mental illness
/ Methodology
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AE Psychology of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Interpretation of
B Book review B Religion B Cognition B Behavior B Mental Disorder |
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| Summary: | In this commentary I will be exploring a number of implications that McCauley and Graham’s theses about the interrelationship of normal, religious, and mentally disordered cognition have for an interpretative methodology that has been fruitfully utilized by empirically-oriented scholars of religion. I argue that that methodology imposes some important constraints on the type of theorizing McCauley and Graham propose, and that their findings in turn suggest some important modifications to that methodology. |
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| ISSN: | 2049-7563 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Gods in Disorder (2021)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.19502 |