عنوان

Cognitive Phenomenology of Religious Experience in Religious Narratives, Dreams, and Nightmares

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LA109059

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Title Proper

Cognitive Phenomenology of Religious Experience in Religious Narratives, Dreams, and Nightmares

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Patrick McNamara, April Minsky, Victoria Pae, et al.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

McNamara () hypothesized that a 4-step sequential decentering process (diminished agency, liminality, effort, and success) characterized the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experiences (rses) and was rooted in dreams and nightmares. We content analyzed 50 rses, 50 dreams, and 50 nightmares for presence and ordering of elements of the decentering process. Thirty-six percent of rses, 48% of dreams, and 44% of nightmares had all four decentering elements. The sense of success occurred most frequently in rses (11% of all decentering instances) and least frequently in nightmares (5%). Conversely, diminishment of agency occurred least often in rses (7% of all decentering instances) and most often in nightmares (10%). For rses 66% of instances of effort occurred, as hypothesized, after liminality and diminishment. We conclude that an orderly 4-step decentering process is reliably detectable in many, but not all, rses, and that randomly ordered decentering elements occur abundantly in dreams and nightmares. McNamara () hypothesized that a 4-step sequential decentering process (diminished agency, liminality, effort, and success) characterized the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experiences (rses) and was rooted in dreams and nightmares. We content analyzed 50 rses, 50 dreams, and 50 nightmares for presence and ordering of elements of the decentering process. Thirty-six percent of rses, 48% of dreams, and 44% of nightmares had all four decentering elements. The sense of success occurred most frequently in rses (11% of all decentering instances) and least frequently in nightmares (5%). Conversely, diminishment of agency occurred least often in rses (7% of all decentering instances) and most often in nightmares (10%). For rses 66% of instances of effort occurred, as hypothesized, after liminality and diminishment. We conclude that an orderly 4-step decentering process is reliably detectable in many, but not all, rses, and that randomly ordered decentering elements occur abundantly in dreams and nightmares.

Date of Publication

2015

Physical description

343-357

Title

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

Volume Number

37/3

International Standard Serial Number

1573-6121

Subject Term

content analysis

Subject Term

decentering

Subject Term

dreams

Subject Term

nightmares

Subject Term

phenomenology

Subject Term

religious and spiritual experiences

Alina Gusev

April Minsky

Patrick McNamara

Victoria Pae

Call Number

10.1163/15736121-12341311

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[Article]

275578

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