Judeo-Christian Religious Experience and Psychopathology: The Legacy of William James

Dein, Simon

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“…Varieties of religious experience. Retrieved from https://worldu.edu/library/william_james_var.pdf ) described in his classical Varieties, when religious experiences in various cultures and experiences of common people are included (Dein, 2010Dein, S. (2010. Judeo-Christian religious experience and psychopathology: The legacy of William James.…”

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Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder

Ouwehand

Muthert

Zock

et al. 2017

The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

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The authenticity of religious and spiritual experiences during mania is an important subject for bipolar patients. The exploration of such experience in bipolar disorder is the central point of this qualitative study. A psychiatrist and a hospital chaplain conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with recovered participants, recruited from mental health care institutions in the Netherlands, the patients' association and via the internet, about their religious and spiritual experiences during illness episodes and in stable times. A variety in types (such as divine presence, unity, mission, meaningful synchronicity) during mania was reported, which were on a sliding scale with experiences/views in stable times in more than half of the interviews. During depression, absence of religious or spiritual experience was predominant. The reported experiences were viewed by most participants as both authentically religious or spiritual but also related to the disorder, requiring therefore language that transcended medical terminology. Also indicated is the relevance of the results for fundamental discussions about the nature or religious experience.

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Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder

Ouwehand

Muthert

Zock

et al. 2017

The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

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“…First there is a prominent focus in the anthropology of religion on religious experience, its phenomenology and its relationships to mental wellbeing that tie together issues of agency, gender, embodiment and power. Compared to belief and attendance, religious experience has been neglected in the scholarly literature (Dein, 2010). In many cultures religious rituals and prayer are prevalent strategies for dealing with adversity, but we know 13 little about their mental health consequences.…”

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Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health

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Koenig³

2012

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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“…pathology, psychosis, schizophrenia, mental disorder) are social kinds, it is difficult to eak of such categories without implying that they are either social or else (essentialist) natural kinds, and I wi l presup ose that they are social ones. This is because attempts to find a (biological, phenomenological, or other) essence or substantive core of these categories has thus far been unsuccessful, and so to eak of them as natural kinds would seem to be to jump to some unsubstantiated essentialist conclusions (see Littlewood, 1997, p. 67;Dein, 2010). I wi l also presuppose that, far from entailing truth relativism, we can undertake both descriptive and analytical projects with re ect to social kinds (see Haslanger, 2012, p. 222-224).…”

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Can jinn be a tonic? The therapeutic value of spirit-related beliefs, practices and experiences

Scrutton

2016

Filosofia Unisinos

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Religion and spirituality are increasingly associated with mental health, yet spirit-related practices, beliefs and experiences (SPBEs) are regarded with more suspicion. This suspicion is misplaced, and worryingly so, since, I argue, it shuts down a potentially therapeutic avenue in relation to anomalous experiences such as hearing voices and sensing the presence of the dead. A presupposition of this argument is that anomalous experiences are not inherently pathological but can become so as a result of the way they are interpreted and reacted to. While this claim is not new in itself, I will provide a philosophical foundation for it by defending a 'contextualist' view of pathology in the context of anomalous experiences against 'inherentist' alternatives, according to which some or all instances of anomalous experiences are inherently pathological.Keywords: religion, spirituality, auditory hallucinations, psychosis, pathology, mediumship, schizophrenia, hearing voices, mediumship, spirit possession, healing rituals. RESUMOA religião e a espiritualidade são cada vez mais associadas a ganhos em saúde mental. No entanto, práticas, crenças e experiências espirituais são vistas com suspeita. Esta suspeita é preocupantemente errônea visto que ela interrompe uma via potencialmente terapêutica com relação a experiências anômalas, como ouvir vozes e sentir a presença dos mortos. Uma pressuposição do meu argumento é que experiências anômalas não são inerentemente patológicas mas podem tornar-se patológicas como resultado do modo como são interpretadas e como se reage a elas. Apesar de essa reivindicação não ser inovadora em si, forneço uma fundação filosófica para ela ao defender uma visão "contextualista" da patologia no contexto de experiências anômalas contra alternativas "inerentistas" de acordo com as quais há instâncias de experiências anômalas que são inerentemente patológicas.

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Judeo-Christian Religious Experience and Psychopathology: The Legacy of William James

Cited by 25 publications

References 53 publications

Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder

Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder

Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health

Can jinn be a tonic? The therapeutic value of spirit-related beliefs, practices and experiences

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