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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Main Author: Gardiner, Mark Q. 1963- (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: 9-20
Review of:Hearing voices and other matters of the mind (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020) (Gardiner, Mark Q.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religious experience / Mental illness / Methodology / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
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.
ISSN:2049-7563
Reference:Kritik in "Gods in Disorder (2021)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.19502