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...
| Autres titres: | Special Issue: Imagination & Religion |
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| Auteurs: | ; ; |
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Equinox Publ.
[2019]
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| Dans: |
Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Année: 2017, Volume: 5, Numéro: 1, Pages: 37-62 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Récit
/ Religiosité
/ Foi
/ Parasoziale Interaktion
/ Imagination
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
/ Psychologie des religions
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion AG Vie religieuse |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
parasociability
B Narrative B Religion B transportability B imaginative resistance B Story |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.37491 |