Mircea Eliade, Michael Jackson, and the Normalization of Psychopathology
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https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.40100Keywords:
eliade, michael jackson, disciplinary formation, psychopathyAbstract
How do we deal with the (to say the least) problematic history of our acadeic superstars?
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———. 2019. An Unnatural History of Religions: Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge. London: Bloomsbury.
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Dowd, M. “The King of Pop — and Perversion.” The New York Times, 16 February. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/michael-jackson-leaving-neverland.html
Eliade, M. 2010. The Portugal Journal. Translated by M. L. Ricketts. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Girardot, N. 1982. “Imagining Eliade: A Fondness for Squirrels.” In Imagination and Meaning: the scholarly and literary worlds of Mircea Eliade, edited by N. Girardot and M. L. Ricketts, 1–16. New York: Seabury Press.
Idel, M. 2014. Mircea Eliade. De la magie la mit. Translated by M.-M. Anghelescu. Iasi: Polirom.
Jardine, N. 2004. “Etics and Emics (Not to Mention Anemics and Emetics) in the History of the Sciences.” History of Science 42(3): 261–278. https://doi.org/10.1177/007327530404200301
Pinker, S. 2018. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. London: Penguin.
Reed, D. 2019. Leaving Neverland. London: Amos Pictures.
———. 2015. “Mapping Pluto’s Republic: Cognitive and Epistemological Reflections on Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem.” Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 3(2): 183–205. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.27091
———. 2016. “Mind the Unbridgeable Gap: A Cautionary Tale about Pseudoscientific Distortions and Scientific Misconceptions in the Study of Religion.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 28(2): 141–225. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341372
———. 2018a. “Politics of Nostalgia, Logical Fallacies, and Cognitive Biases: The Importance of Epistemology in the Age of Cognitive Historiography.” In Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz, edited by A. K. Petersen, G. I. Sælid, L. H. Martin, J. S. Jensen and J. Sørensen, 280–296. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385375_019
Ambasciano, L. 2018b. “Comparative Religion as a Life Science: William E. Paden’s Neo-Plinian “New Naturalism.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 30(2): 141–149.
———. 2019. An Unnatural History of Religions: Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge. London: Bloomsbury.
Baron-Cohen, S. 2011. Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness. London: Penguin.
Bering, J. 2012. Why the Penis Is Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human. London: Corgi.
Brüne, M. 2016. Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine: The Origins of Psychopathology. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Candia, C., C. Jara-Figueroa, C. Rodriguez-Sickert, A.-L. Barabási and C.A. Hidalgo. 2019. “The Universal Decay of Collective Memory and Attention.” Nature Human Behaviour 3: 82–91. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0474-5
Cartwright, R. 2019 [2015]. Pure. London: Unbound.
Dowd, M. “The King of Pop — and Perversion.” The New York Times, 16 February. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/michael-jackson-leaving-neverland.html
Eliade, M. 2010. The Portugal Journal. Translated by M. L. Ricketts. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Girardot, N. 1982. “Imagining Eliade: A Fondness for Squirrels.” In Imagination and Meaning: the scholarly and literary worlds of Mircea Eliade, edited by N. Girardot and M. L. Ricketts, 1–16. New York: Seabury Press.
Idel, M. 2014. Mircea Eliade. De la magie la mit. Translated by M.-M. Anghelescu. Iasi: Polirom.
Jardine, N. 2004. “Etics and Emics (Not to Mention Anemics and Emetics) in the History of the Sciences.” History of Science 42(3): 261–278. https://doi.org/10.1177/007327530404200301
Pinker, S. 2018. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. London: Penguin.
Reed, D. 2019. Leaving Neverland. London: Amos Pictures.
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2019-12-16
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Ambasciano, L. (2019). Mircea Eliade, Michael Jackson, and the Normalization of Psychopathology. Implicit Religion, 22(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.40100
