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- Title
RESPONSE TO KONRAD TALMONT-KAMINSKI'S REVIEW: EMBRACING APPARITIONS FOR UNITY.
- Authors
HALEMBA, AGNIESZKA
- Abstract
As a social anthropologist and a sympathetic observer, rather than a regular participant in discussions taking place within the cognitive studies of religion, I am honored that my book (Halemba 2015a) has received attention from a journal representing this field. It is probably fair to say though that I have made more effort than an average social anthropologist to get to know the cognitive approaches. Among others, I took part in a workshop organized by the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project in Oxford in 2009 and carried out within this framework a small project based on Harvey Whitehouse's theory, investigating the correlation between-what I was later to define as-"organizational embracement" and emotionality of apparitional narratives. I mention this research for a reason. Although the results of this project were in my opinion quite interesting (they indeed indicated an inverse correlation between how strongly a narrative's producers were embedded in church organizational structures and its emotional intensity), I have never published them. The most challenging aspect of this project was a methodological shift, exemplified by an attempt to measure emotionality of the narratives. As a social anthropologist, explicitly trained to pay attention to differences and idiosyncrasies, to focus on what transgresses the dominant bodies of knowledge, to reflect on my own involvement, and to look for local interpretations and divergent voices, I found it difficult to jump over my own shadow and invest time in search of clusters, similarities and regularities. Consequently, I decided to pursue further my research into apparitions using methods that I already knew well from my previous work in social anthropology.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS apparitions; MARIAN apparitions; ETHNOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY
- Publication
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2016, Vol 4, Issue 2, p196
- ISSN
2049-7555
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/jcsr.38249