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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-
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Completing the circle : How cognitive perspectives can revitalize the study of religion and education
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The history of education is intertwined with the history of psychology, and influential thinkers such as Johann Herbart, William James, John Dewey, Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner employed psychological perspectives when developing their ideas on knowledge and learning. This connection however appears to be weak in contemporary studies on religion and education, despite the expansive progress seen in both psychology and the cognitive sciences. This paper introduces areas where cognitive perspectives can be useful in developing a broader understanding of religion and education. Such gains both pertain to the theoretical understanding of how to develop religious literacy among pupils and students, as well as didactic aspects of the work conducted in classrooms. The ideas presented in the paper are centered around ‘learning by doing’, the role of emotions in enhancing memory, narrative didactics, and how experiences support the understanding of others and may bridge between pupils with differing identities. By involving cognitive perspectives, we can complement the understanding of the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ with comprehension of ‘why’ certain topics and methods provide more profound insights and learning outcomes than others.
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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-
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Döden i klassrummet : Nya villkor för mötet mellan ’sekulära’ och ’religiösa’ elever
- 2021
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Ingår i: Den nya människan. - Möklinta : Gidlunds förlag. - 9789178444717 ; , s. 179-190
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I detta kapitel utforskas krocken mellan reflekterade tankar och oreflekterade intuitioner om vad som händer med våra sinnen när vi dör. Syftet är att belysa samtal om döden som en konstruktiv mötesplats där elever med sekulär respektive religiös identitet kan mötas i religionskunskapsundervisningen, och begreppet *sekulär litteracitet* föreslås här som ett analytiskt komplement till *religiös litteracitet.* I den första delen av kapitlet presenteras tidigare kognitionsvetenskaplig religionsforskning om människans (o)förmåga att föreställa sig sinnenas upphörande efter döden. I den andra delen av kapitlet sammanförs den kognitionsvetenskapliga forskning som presenterats med en religionsdidaktisk diskussion kring varför och hur mänskliga intuitioner om sinnets fortlevnad efter döden kan tas till vara i religionskunskapsundervisningen.
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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-
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Experience as a path towards supernatural beliefs : The role of occulture among younger generations
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this presentation, I will address a glitch that has been largely overlooked in the study of religious cognition; namely cross-generational differences in the attribution of non-ordinary powers. Contemporary popular culture is permeated by magical and occult narratives, and Christopher Partridge argues that such ”occulture” has become ordinary among younger generations. While occult narratives may not be labelled as spiritual or religious, they yet appear to function as existential anchors in secularized contexts. Empirical examples are provided from a study on supernatural and parasocial relations among young adults on the autism spectrum, who are using the term ”supernatural” to make sense of anomalous experiences. Such experiences moreover seem to provide a path towards non-empirical beliefs in a sample that grew up highly secularized Sweden.
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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-
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How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others, by Tanya Luhrmann.
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2049-7555 .- 2049-7563. ; 7:1, s. 123-126
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others, by Tanya Luhrmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xv + 235 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN: 9780691164465.
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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-
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Ockult populärkultur och övernaturlig erfarenhet bland unga (autistiska) svenskar : Vems ’religion’ undervisar vi om?
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Ingår i: Årsbok / Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap. - Malmö : Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap. ; , s. 40-54
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- När jag som ung religionslärarstudent introducerades till Hjalmar Sundéns rollteori öppnades en ny värld för mig. I detta kapitel vill jag dela med mig av hur Sundéns tankar fört mig vidare in i det nya fält som kallas kognitionsvetenskaplig religionsforskning, och hur detta i sin tur fått mig att skifta fokus från vad människor tror till vad de upplever. Detta perspektivskifte utmanar tidigare antaganden kring den generation av elever som idag befinner sig i våra klassrum: är svenska majoritetsungdomar verkligen så sekulariserade som många tror? Mitt ärende berör också möjligheten att bjuda in eleverna att dela med sig av sina egna erfarenheter via ett underutnyttjat medium; nämligen ockult populärkultur.
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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-
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Religious experience among young, autistic adults
- 2022
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Ingår i: Autism and Religious Experience. - Zagreb : Grafomark. - 9789534948125 ; , s. 101-121
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter takes its departure in interviews with 17 young adults (16-21 years old), who are all diagnosed with autism (type 1) and who describe themselves as religious and/or spiritual. According to the naturalness hypothesis of religion, supernatural beliefs are underpinned by an intuitive propensity for mentalization. But what about autistic individuals who find mentalization difficult? The aim was to explore how these individuals – who all struggle to grasp social communication in their everyday lives – come to form intimate relationships with invisible, supernatural beings. The findings suggest that the absence of physical bodies facilitates mentalization, as autistic individuals often are challenged in decoding non-verbal, embodied language. Instead, the participants describe interpretation of emotions as key to understanding what their supernatural partners have in mind. Another finding concerns the fact that most of the participants grew up in families with secular worldviews, and their path towards developing supernatural interpretations seems to be mediated through anomalous experiences, rather than social learning or philosophical reasoning. While the study does not reveal to what extent autistic individuals generally are attracted to invisible agency and magical narratives, it illustrates that supernatural dimensions are central for the participants in this study, and that such beliefs support them in making sense of unusual experiences and to cope with difficulties in their everyday lives.
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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-
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Supernatural experiences and autistic embodiment
- 2020
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Ingår i: Religion. Tidsskrift for Religionslærerforeningen for Gymnasiet og HF. - 0108-4488. ; :1, s. 51-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Visuri, Ingela, fil. dr. 1976-, et al.
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The psychology of religion : Experiential dimensions
- 2022
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Ingår i: Bloomsbury Religion in North America. - : Bloomsbury Academic.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we will look into some commonly used methods and theories in the psychology of religion. This research field dates back to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when scholars such as Stanley Hall and William James directed attention toward the role of religious experiences and their relation to human nature. Such experiences are focused on here, and as we will see, there are various ways of approaching the interaction between psychology, religion, culture, embodiment, and cognition. This article provides examples of both qualitative and quantitative methods commonly used in the field, and the pros and cons these bring about. We will also examine some prominent schools of thought that differ in their approach to religion and psychology: cultural psychology, clinical psychology, and the cognitive science of religion. While some of these scholars emphasize the role of culture, others center the role of internal, psychological processes. In some cases, the role of embodied practices and collective emotions are seen as crucial for the understanding of religiosity, and in other cases, individual traits are highlighted. This variety of approaches makes up a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the complex and fascinating ways in which religion and psychology interact, and how the outcome of such processes differs between various cultures and contexts.
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