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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Guds närvaro, frånvaro och irrelevans : Ett religionspsykologiskt perspektiv. / Gods Presence, Absence and Irrelevance : A Study in the Psychology of Religious Experience.

Back, Karolina January 2023 (has links)
In this essay I discuss the occurrence of religious experiences from a psychological- and constructionist point of view. To be more precise I am interested in the presence of God. Why some people experience Gos as present, while he is deemed absent and irrelevant according to others. In search of an answer I have turned toward Tanya Luhrmanns research regarding the upkeep of ones ”faith frame” as well as the importance of religious narratives. Based upon my own compilation of previous research studies, tied to a theoretical analysis of Alices religious experience, I have found that we are all able to (1) experience narrative transportation, (2) absorb the content of religious narratives, and (3) live in alignment with our personal paracosm. These three are accomplished through a variety of cognitive-, psychological- and narrative mechanisms. And as so I put forth and advance the following proposition. Perhaps our experiences of Gods presence, including Alices, can be understood as the result of our human ability to live our lives in stories. While our experiences of Gods absence and irrelevance can be viewed through its complexities

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