By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind
Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind seeks to bring the theories and discoveries of the Cognitive Science of Religion to broader discussions of mental health. In doing so, the authors introduce auditory verbal hallucinations as one example of a supposed continuity between religious experienc...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2021
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Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 73-84 |
Review of: | Hearing voices and other matters of the mind (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020) (Powell, Adam J.)
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Auditory hallucinations
/ By-products
/ Mental illness
/ Religious experience
/ Phenomenological psychology
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
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RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion |
Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Auditory Verbal Hallucinations B Interdisciplinarity B Voice-hearing B Continuum Hypothesis B Explanatory Pluralism B Spiritually Significant Voices |
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Summary: | Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind seeks to bring the theories and discoveries of the Cognitive Science of Religion to broader discussions of mental health. In doing so, the authors introduce auditory verbal hallucinations as one example of a supposed continuity between religious experiences and mental disorder. Based on up-to-date research into the phenomenological overlap between the voice-hearing experiences of those with and without a mental health diagnosis and those who report hearing spiritually significant voices, this essay elucidates the complexity of presupposing such continuities. We critique the notion that the cognitive mechanisms implicated in religiosity are inadvertent "by-products" of the mind’s operations and propose, rather, that they are the inevitable outcomes of human meaning-making. |
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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.20092 |