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

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.

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

• Originální 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
• WWW: 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

Anotace

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.