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...

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Nebentitel:Special Issue: Imagination & Religion
VerfasserInnen: Black, Jessica E. (VerfasserIn) ; Barnes, Jennifer Lynn 1983- (VerfasserIn) ; Oberstein-Allen, Molly (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox Publ. [2019]
In: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 5, Heft: 1, Seiten: 37-62
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Erzählung / Religiosität / Glaube / Parasoziale Interaktion / Imagination / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft / Religionspsychologie
RelBib Classification:AE Religionspsychologie
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
weitere Schlagwörter:B parasociability
B Narrative
B Religion
B transportability
B imaginative resistance
B Story
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:2049-7563
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.37491