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1	Religion och Qualia : I gränslandet mellan medvetandestudier och religionsvetenskap Nielsen, Varg January 2015 (has links) Up to this date there are several scientific disciplines that deal with religion´s underlying mechanisms and certain functions of our consciousness, but there isn´t anyone who takes into account the entire aspect of consciousness. The aim of the present work is to bring the entire aspect of our consciousness into the scientific discussion of religion. To help in doing this, the philosophical concept of qualia is used. First the concept is problematized, then an examination whether the concept has explanatory value in the science of religion and in the understanding of religious experience is done. The concept of qualia has in this manner been applied to several scientific theories of religion and place-related entity continuity has been used as an example of religious experience. The present work is developed as a literature study and uses literature and theories from de scientific disciplines of philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, neurotheology, cognitive science of religion and psychology of religion. As an underlying method the epistemological theory of holistic coherentism is used because it enables such an interdisciplinary study as this work is. What this work shows is that qualia have a high explanatory value in the science of religion and in the understanding of religious experience and how we form religious concepts. However, the concept of qualia is problematic and great care must be exercised when inferences are made. Qualia Neurotheology Cognitive science of religion Philosophy of religion Psychology of religion Consciousness studies Place-related entity continuity Qualia Neuroteologi Kognitionsvetenskapliga religionsstudier religionsfilosofi religionspsykologi medvetandestudier platsbunden entitetskontinuitet
2	Entitetkontinuitet : en religionspsykologisk tolkning / Entity Continuity : a Psychology of Religion Interpretation Duppils, Sara January 2009 (has links) “Entity continuity” refers to recurrent transcendent experiences related to certain places (“hauntings”). The experiences are often interpreted to be due to discarnate spirits or folklore entities. Although the entity continuity experience can be regarded as religious experience, they have yet to be fully explored in science of religion. The purpose of this paper was to describe entity continuity experiences and map out the scientific discussion in order to provide a psychology of religion that provides an understanding of the phenomena. For this purpose a literature study of theories of jungian psychology, parapsychology, and described experiences was undertaken. The material was thereafter analyzed comparatively. The results show that entity continuity experiences can be understood as a form of animism and that the experiences are colored by culture, context, and visual impression. The material also shows that experiences at locations that have played host to entity continuity and poltergeist experiences are equivalent. An altered state of consciousness, a special type of personality, and distinctive environmental stimuli, the atmosphere or “feeling”, is necessary for the occurrence of these experiences. The “percipients” and/or “agents” psychic material is reflected in the atmosphere and becomes expressed as psychic manifestations in the form of entity experiences. entity continuity hauntings apparitions ESP psychology of religion atmosphere spirit ghost spiritualism spiritism animism poltergiest C. G. Jung altered state of consciousness ASC jungian psychology folklore entitetkontinuitet entitetupplevelser religiösa upplevelser ESP jungiansk psykologi C. G. Jung hemsökt plats andar spöken poltergeist folktro folktroväsen förändrat medvetandetillstånd inbedda kyrkor atmosfär platsminne kvarvarande psykiska avtryck apparitioner förnimmelse autonoma kompex komplex numen animistiska teorier spiritistiska teorier det omedvetna alien subjektiva upplevelser objektiva upplevelser Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap Humanities Humaniora

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Religion och Qualia : I gränslandet mellan medvetandestudier och religionsvetenskap

Entitetkontinuitet : en religionspsykologisk tolkning / Entity Continuity : a Psychology of Religion Interpretation