Religious Experiences Are Interpreted through Priors from Cultural Frameworks Supported by Imaginative Capacity Rather Than Special Cognition

In this commentary of McCauley and Graham’s book on mental abnormalities and religions, we identify a number of challenges, and present possible extensions of their proposed research. Specifically, we argue that no specialized religious cognition should be assumed, and instead suggest that the cases...

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Authors: Mulukom, Valerie van (Author) ; Lang, Martin 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2021
In: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-53
Review of:Hearing voices and other matters of the mind (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020) (Mulukom, Valerie van)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mental illness / Religiosity / Cultural system / Imagination / Prädiktive Codierung / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Book review
B Predictive processing
B Imagination
B Mental Disorders
B Religion
B cultural frameworks
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