عنوان

Rethinking Autism, Theism, and Atheism

شماره

LA109102

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Rethinking Autism, Theism, and Atheism

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ingela Visuri

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This anthropologically informed study explores descriptions of communication with invisible, superhuman agents in high functioning young adults on the autism spectrum. Based on material from interviews, two hypotheses are formulated. First, autistic individuals may experience communication with bodiless agents (e.g., gods, angels, and spirits) as less complex than interaction with peers, since it is unrestricted by multisensory input, such as body language, facial expressions, and intonation. Second, descriptions of how participants absorb into "imaginary realities" suggest that such mental states are desirable due to qualities that facilitate social cognition: While the empirical world comes through as fragmented and incoherent, imaginary worlds offer predictability, emotional coherence, and benevolent minds. These results do not conform to popular expectations that autistic minds are less adapted to experience supernatural agents, and it is instead argued that imaginative, autistic individuals may embrace religious and fictive agents in search for socially and emotionally comprehensible interaction. This anthropologically informed study explores descriptions of communication with invisible, superhuman agents in high functioning young adults on the autism spectrum. Based on material from interviews, two hypotheses are formulated. First, autistic individuals may experience communication with bodiless agents (e.g., gods, angels, and spirits) as less complex than interaction with peers, since it is unrestricted by multisensory input, such as body language, facial expressions, and intonation. Second, descriptions of how participants absorb into "imaginary realities" suggest that such mental states are desirable due to qualities that facilitate social cognition: While the empirical world comes through as fragmented and incoherent, imaginary worlds offer predictability, emotional coherence, and benevolent minds. These results do not conform to popular expectations that autistic minds are less adapted to experience supernatural agents, and it is instead argued that imaginative, autistic individuals may embrace religious and fictive agents in search for socially and emotionally comprehensible interaction.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

1-31

عنوان

Archive for the Psychology of Religion

شماره جلد

40/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1573-6121

اصطلاح موضوعی

autism

اصطلاح موضوعی

emotional coherence

اصطلاح موضوعی

fantasy proneness

اصطلاح موضوعی

imagination

اصطلاح موضوعی

mentalizing abilities

اصطلاح موضوعی

multisensory binding

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

superhuman agents

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ingela Visuri

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15736121-12341348

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y