Hearing Voices, Epilepsy, and Religious Experience. McCauley
and Graham’s New Solutions to Old Problems

j 2021

Hearing Voices, Epilepsy, and Religious Experience. McCauley and Graham’s New Solutions to Old Problems

CIGÁN, Jakub

Základní údaje

Originální název

Hearing Voices, Epilepsy, and Religious Experience. McCauley and Graham’s New Solutions to Old Problems

Autoři

CIGÁN, Jakub (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Sheffield (UK), Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021, 2049-7555

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku (nerecenzovaný)

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123623

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.20219

UT WoS

000688436100009

Klíčová slova anglicky

brain disorder; mental illness; religious experience; mystical experience; epilepsy; St. Paul; CSR; McCauley; Graham

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 9. 2. 2024 18:02, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová

Anotace

V originále

Approaching religious or mystical experience in association with mental or brain disorder has been a widespread practice in psychology and neuropsychology, but not so much in the cognitive science of religion (CSR). By their recent book, McCauley and Graham balance the disproportion within CSR. In the commentary, I address McCauley and Graham’s solutions to fundamental problems typical for the psychiatric approach to a religious experience. This approach understands religious experience as a mental or a brain disorder, diagnoses the disorder based on insufficient data in historical cases, and neglects cultural and historical aspects of religious experience and mental disorders. McCauley and Graham handle the diagnosis problem by focusing on the particular aspect of the religious experience (e.g., “hearing voices”) and analyzing its pathological and non-pathological aspects, instead of simply assuming disorder. In regards to the neglect of historical and cultural aspects of religious experience and mental illness, McCauley and Graham stress the importance of the cultural domestication of unusual aspects of religious experience. In dealing with the psychiatric approach problems, McCauley and Graham introduce a new complementary and complex theoretical model for embracing mental abnormalities into the framework of CSR.

Přiložené soubory

Cigan-Hearing_Voices-Final.pdf

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Citovat

CIGÁN, Jakub. Hearing Voices, Epilepsy, and Religious Experience. McCauley and Graham’s New Solutions to Old Problems. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. Sheffield (UK): Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021, roč. 7, č. 1, s. 85-93. ISSN 2049-7555. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.20219.

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CIGÁN, Jakub. Hearing Voices, Epilepsy, and Religious Experience. McCauley and Graham’s New Solutions to Old Problems. \textit{Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion}. Sheffield (UK): Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021, roč.~7, č.~1, s.~85-93. ISSN~2049-7555. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.20219.

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