Hearing voices and other matters of the mind : what mental abnormalities can teach us about religions / Robert N. McCauley and George Graham.

"McCauley and Graham endorse an Ecumenical Naturalism toward all cognition, which will illuminate the long-recognized and striking similarities between features of mental disorders and features of religions. The authors emphasize underlying cognitive continuities between familiar features of religio...

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Main Authors: McCauley, Robert N. (Author)
Graham, George, 1945- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Physical Description:xvii, 256 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a God naturally, disorder actually : ecumenical naturalism and religious cognition -- Voice of god, sound of self : sources of religious experience and symptoms of illness -- Praying in the dark : depression and divine abandonment -- Scrupulosity, obsessive compulsive disorder, and ritual -- Searching for the gods' minds the hard way -- Ecumenical naturalism : principles, presuppositions, and prospects. 
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