Evangelicals love their demons — which they claim to see or sense in just about everything bad that happens. All it takes is some exorcism or “casting out” and all will be well.
As I have mentioned in several previous posts, one of autism’s effects is a lack of “theory of mind.” This in turn renders [...]
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Exorcising Autistics and Gays
June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Axial Age Religions, Cognition and Religion, Daily Devolutions, Magic and Religion, Ritual and Religion
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“Speaking in Tongues” — Translating the Spirit
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cognition and Religion, Ritual and Religion
“Speaking in Tongues” or glossolalia is most often associated with Pentecostal worship. It is an interesting phenomenon that has attracted some scholarly interest. A recent post over at Brain Blogger discusses some of these studies:
Research performed in the 1980s at Denison University by the late anthropologist Felicitas Goodman led to a theory that glossolalia was [...]