Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies PDF
265 Pages·2023·4.686 MB·English
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How do we explain the coincidence of religion and madness in which prophets, founders of religions and great saints often show symptoms of an excitability that is extreme and even pathological? This book attempts to address this phenomenological problem.Richard Saville-Smith argues that ‘acute religious experiences’ provides a novel category to the study of the non-rational. This book provides an epidemiological approach to a crisis, which is non-veridical and non-reductionist, recognizing a predisposition due to gene variation as a perennial constant, whilst affirming that culture contextualizes experiences. Informed by contemporary psychiatric theory, which is passed through the lens of mad studies, this book proposes the ‘sweet-spot’ of ‘acute religious experiences’ which express the phenomenality of madness – but where mad is good.This interdisciplinary study provides a species-wide account of interest to all disciplines that encounter such anomalies in their subjects, from fine art to psychiatry.
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