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- Dahlin, Olov, 1962-
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Zvinorwadza : being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses these basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients' life-worlds look like? In order to find answers to these questions, an in-depth fieldwork was carried out through which I was able to study how patients reacted to illness. I followed twenty patients in their search of ease, of which ten were members of Chief Mataga's family, with whom I was staying. Each patient, some relative(s) and the traditional healer(s) and faith healer(s) consulted constituted a "multi-episodical" case. In addition, a questionnaire was applied in order to collect supplementary information. A further area of research was the various factors which negatively and positively influenced the lives of people in the area. I examined those factors from both the insider and an outsider perspective and concluded that the phenomenon of illness and healing need to be regarded holistically and that it is of crucial importance to acknowledge patients' own ideas concerning those issues.
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- Dahlin, Olov, 1962-
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Tradition och förändring i några indiska filmer
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In: Bogart och Betel. - Uppsala : Swedish Science Press. - 9789186992217 ; , s. 70-80
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I denna artikel har jag valt att analysera tre indiska filmer som visades i Sveriges Television under hösten 2007 under en så kallad Bollywood-vecka. Filmerna är Följ ditt hjärta (Dil Jo Bhi Kahey) Tid av glädje, tid av sorg (Kabhi kushi, kabhie gham) och Water. Jag vill undersöka hur man i filmerna förhåller sig till den inhemska kulturella och religiösa traditionen å ena sidan och å andra sidan de moderna influenserna ifrån väst. Artikeln inleds med en kort inventering av centrala indiska traditionella ståndpunkter när det gäller synen på människan och framförallt vilken roll kvinnan har i familjen och samhället. Därefter sammanfattar jag filmernas innehåll. Slutligen analyserar jag och diskuterar filmerna och försöker lyfta fram sådant som jag uppfattar som signifikant i förhållande till mitt syfte. Några avslutande kommentarer ges också utifrån recensioner som filmerna fått inom den indiska kultursfären.
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- Visuri, Ingela, 1976-
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Varieties of Supernatural Experience : the Case of High-Functioning Autism
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- It is argued in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) that the empathic ability to ‘mindread’ others underpins the experience of supernatural communication with gods, ghosts, and spirits. As autism is characterized by mentalizing difficulties, CSR scholars have expected autistic individuals would find supernatural agency incomprehensible. This thesis however turns the question around: why do autistic individuals engage intimately in supernatural relations, despite the social difficulties they face in everyday life?The thesis aims to provide new insights on autistic and religious cognition through examination of supernatural descriptions provided by 17 young, high-functioning autistic adults (16–21 years of age) who label themselves as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’. The research questions explore: (1) cognitive aspects of experienced interaction with invisible agents, compared with human interaction, (2) the prevalence of unusual embodied experiences (e.g. feeling touch and seeing visions without external input) and its role in attributions of supernatural agency, and (3) the psychological function of parasocial (fiction-based) interaction in imaginary realms.This interdisciplinary project draws on work undertaken in the cognitive science of religion, cognitive and critical autism research, and psychological anthropology. Mixed qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to enable a kaleidoscopic outlook on the topics explored, and to promote a dialogue between idiographically and nomothetically oriented scholars. The study provides first-person perspectives on religious and autistic cognition, which is understood as dynamic interaction between embrained, embodied, encultured and situated input.It is argued in Publication I that ‘bodiless’ interaction facilitates mentalizing, also in relation to invisible agents, as no cross-modal synchronization of mimicry, body language and intonation is required. Publication II examines the prevalence of unusual, embodied experiences in autism, and it is proposed that supernatural attributions offer enchantment and sense-making of potentially frightening experiences. Results from Publication III suggest that imaginary worlds and parasocial relations function as ‘simulators’ that autistic individuals use to rehearse social interaction. Publication IV offers a theoretical and methodological discussion regarding the study of atypical cognition. Importantly, this thesis illustrates that these imaginative autistic participants are not drawn to supernatural frame- works in spite of, but because of the supernatural and parasocial characters these provide.
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