Religion and delusion.
Journal
Current opinion in psychology
ISSN: 2352-2518
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101649136
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2021
08 2021
Historique:
received:
14
09
2020
revised:
29
09
2020
accepted:
06
10
2020
pubmed:
24
11
2020
medline:
26
10
2021
entrez:
23
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We review scholarship that examines relationships - and distinctions - between religion and delusion. We begin by outlining and endorsing the position that both involve belief. Next, we present the prevailing psychiatric view that religious beliefs are not delusional if they are culturally accepted. While this cultural exemption has controversial implications, we argue it is clinically valuable and consistent with a growing awareness of the social - as opposed to purely epistemic - function of belief formation. Finally, we review research on continuities between religious and delusional cognition, which reveals that religious content is quite common in delusions and which provides tentative evidence for a positive relationship between religious belief and delusion-like belief in the general population.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33227572
pii: S2352-250X(20)30198-6
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.10.002
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
160-166Informations de copyright
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