The Role of Psychotic Disorders in Religious History Considered

Murray, Evan D.; Cunningham, Miles G.; Price, Bruce H.

doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11090214

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“…As psychiatry was emerging as a discipline, religion was quickly labeled as problematic. This antagonism between psychiatry and religion persisted through most of the 20th century, with some recent authors even suggesting that significant figures in religious history such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Saint Paul may have suffered from psychosis [4]. Freud's atheistic stance was widely adopted by the practitioners of psychoanalysis, further cementing psychiatry's position as unfriendly to religion.…”

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The role of religion and spirituality in mental health

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Pargäment

2014

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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The role of religion and spirituality in mental health

Weber¹,

Pargäment

2014

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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“… Muḥammad's mental state may be comparable to that of Abraham, Moses, Ezekiel, Jesus, and Paul, who some modern psychiatrists studied and suspect to have had psychotic disorders (van Nuys ; Murray, Cunningham, and Price ). …”

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Psychology of Mystical Experience: Muḥammad and Siddhārtha

Galadari

2019

Anthropol of Consciousness

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a b s t r a c tA comparison between Muḥammad and Siddh artha's psychological states is made to identify how they had their mystical experiences and how their presuppositions and personalities shaped their interpretation of these experiences. Muḥammad's mystical experience appeared to be based on an altered state of consciousness. Siddh artha's teachings include that one must not have blind faith and remain open to various truths. These teachings may reflect that he was high in openness to experience, which may have fortified him from becoming delusional. While mystical experiences may have pathological overlaps, they could be categorized in a similar way to psychological states. Yet, mindful presuppositions and personality traits, especially from within openness to experience spectrum, are what make perceptions of these experiences diverse. k e y w o r d s : Buddhism, Islam, mystical experience, personality, psychology & i n t r o d u c t i o nThis article looks into the descriptions of mystical experience by Muḥammad, according to Muslim tradition, when he first described receiving divine revelations and compares it with the experience of Siddh artha, also known as the Buddha, according to the P ali canon. A comparison of these experiences may suggest that they have a similar neuropsychological basis but that the individual's presuppositions and personality cause a difference in the interpretation of these experiences.

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“…Although the occurrence of symptoms with Moses is formulated carefully, almost tentatively, the matter is sealed when (Murray et al 2012 (Murray et al 2012:410-411), the conclusion rather follows that:…”

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Mystifying moments in Bible interpretation: An exploration of some implied backgrounds to three kinds of unusual Bible readings

Lombaard

2017

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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This contribution is part of a series on Methodology and Biblical Spirituality. In this, the fourth contribution, the scope is widened; more practical-analytically oriented, three thoroughly different but nevertheless all unusual kinds of interpretations of the Bible are described, characterised and contextualised. Namely:• In order to explain what are perceived as textual anomalies, some Old Testament authors have been described by US-based medical practitioners as having suffered psychiatric dysfunctions.• The Garden of Eden from Genesis 2 and further has been located by a recently diseased Nigerian scholar as having been in her home country, with a Nigerian race having been the predecessors of biblical Adam and Eve.• Rastafarians, primarily Jamaica-based, regard marijuana as a holy herb and find direct support for their religious use of this plant in the Bible.However strange such ‘mystifying’ interpretations may seem within the theological mainstreams of Judeo-Christianity, there is more to these kinds of interpretations than simple whim. Certain cultural conditions along with personal, particularly spiritual, commitments enable these interpretations, which must be taken seriously in order to come to a fuller understanding of the text–interpreter dynamic. These then can cast at least some form of reflective light on the more usual current biblical-interpretative mainstreams within Judeo-Christianity, posing in a new light the question of what constitutes legitimate interpretations, also within mainstream interpretations, as religiously inclined people try to live their lives in the light of Scripture.

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The Role of Psychotic Disorders in Religious History Considered

Cited by 29 publications

References 84 publications

The role of religion and spirituality in mental health

The role of religion and spirituality in mental health

Psychology of Mystical Experience: Muḥammad and Siddhārtha

Mystifying moments in Bible interpretation: An exploration of some implied backgrounds to three kinds of unusual Bible readings

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