The Processes of Believing, Mental Abnormalities, and Other Matters of the Mind: Where Do They Come From? What Are They Good For?

Two categories of mental events - ecstatic or indescribable religious revelations and bizarre beliefs or behavior with related mental abnormalities - have been compared and contrasted in order to understand whether they are manifestations of different basic neural and psychological processes, or fun...

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Authors: Seitz, Rüdiger J. (Author) ; Angel, Hans-Ferdinand 1960- (Author) ; Paloutzian, Raymond F. 1945- (Author)
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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: 54-72
Review of:Hearing voices and other matters of the mind (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020) (Seitz, Rüdiger J.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Faith development / Religious experience / Cognition / Mental illness / Naturalism (Philosophy) / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Belief
B Book review
B religious cognition
B fundamental mental process
B brain function
B mental disorders
B mental abnormality
B Religious Experience
B credition
B Naturalism
B Neuropsychology
B Believing
B Meaning
B Meaning Making
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