“Maybe it’s kind of normal to hear voices”: The role of spirituality in making sense of voice hearing

Lewis, Sophie Hannah; Sanderson, Chris; Gupta, Anjula; Klein, Claire B.

doi:10.1080/19349637.2018.1520183

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“…IPA intentionally uses smaller samples than some other qualitative approaches, and the sample size used here is typical for the methodology (e.g., Cassar & Shinebourne 2012;K. Lee & Gubi 2019;Lewis et al 2018). IPA explicitly rejects the concept of data saturation and instead idiographically explores the experiences of a purposively chosen sample in detail.…”

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‘I Believe in Something; I Don’t Know What It Is’: An Exploration of Five British Hindus’ Worldviews Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Murphy

Jones

Nigbur

2022

Secularism and Nonreligion

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Previous research has suggested individuals can draw on resources from a diverse range of existential cultures when constructing their personal worldviews. However, the ways individuals' beliefs and worldviews are acquired and develop is still only partially understood. This study investigates these processes of worldview dynamics by exploring the beliefs and practices of five British Hindus. Semi-structured interviews with each participant were inductively analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). This analysis developed six sub-themes which formed two superordinate themes: 'Everybody has their own way' and 'Focusing on this world'. The analysis shows the complexity of many individuals' worldviews and demonstrates how individuals can live in a hinterland between religiosity and non-religiosity. For these participants, existential beliefs were idiosyncratic and deeply personal. They rejected some aspects of their cultural heritage while retaining others. The participants were comfortable with uncertainty about such matters and were highly tolerant of divergent beliefs. Understanding how these participants made sense of their world increases our understanding of both worldview dynamics and the forms that secularity can take in modern Britain. This shows why more nuanced understandings of 'belief' are necessary to explore the complexity of people's lived experiences.

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‘I Believe in Something; I Don’t Know What It Is’: An Exploration of Five British Hindus’ Worldviews Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Murphy

Jones

Nigbur

2022

Secularism and Nonreligion

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“…Numerous previous studies have used IPA to investigate aspects of spirituality and religiosity. These include studies of how religious individuals make sense of certain experiences (e.g., Moss & Snodgrass, 2017 ; Ward, 2011 ) and of specific phenomena that are considered spiritual or religious (e.g., Lewis, Sanderson, Gupta, & Klein, 2018 ; Wilde & Murray, 2010 ). However, we believe this is the first study to use IPA to explore lived religiosity/spirituality more broadly and from a “meaning systems” perspective ( Paloutzian & Park, 2013 ), examining how the many elements in religious individuals’ lives interact and mutually interpret each other.…”

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Living in a world with God: An interpretative phenomenological exploration of the religious experiences of five Baptists in Britain

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Religious and spiritual experiences often form significant elements of people’s narratives about their faith and lives, but the impact of these experiences is often neglected in academic studies. This study investigated the connections between perceived experiences of God and beliefs in the lives of five members of a Baptist church in Britain, using data from semi-structured interviews. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to explore the data and develop 11 recurrent sub-themes, organized into two super-ordinate themes: “Knowing God” and “Living in the World.” There were idiosyncratic differences between the experiences of the participants, but they all perceived God communicating with them and attributed certain events to God’s influence. These experiences developed real and meaningful relationships with God, and the participants’ faith affected every aspect of their lives, shaping their actions, beliefs and daily lived experiences. The participants’ diverse experiences and beliefs created mutually supporting meaning systems (or worldviews) that were much stronger than the individual elements that contributed to them. God was an intrinsic part of the participants’ social reality, and their lived experiences cannot be adequately understood without appreciating the influence of this central aspect of their lives. These findings show the importance of taking a holistic and idiographic perspective when studying religiosity and spirituality. The study also demonstrates IPA is a useful and effective tool for studying lived experiences of religiosity and spirituality and supports its broader use to investigate such phenomena.

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“…Because the need to belong has moved from being an ancillary theory to a foundational theory; we can increase our understanding of a broad range of social psychological phenomena by examining the role that the need to belong plays in those phenomena. In just the last two years the need to belong was used to increase understanding of drug addiction (Inagaki et al, 2020), politics (McDonald et al (2020, religion (Lewis et al, 2020), mental illness (Kranabetter & Niessen, 2019), sports (Herbison et al, 2019), racial identity (Thelamour et al, 2019), organizational behavior (Shanock et al, 2019), radicalization (Ozer & Bertelsen, 2019), teenage parenting and education (Whiteway, 2019), gambling (Sirola et al, 2019), physical fitness (Evans et al, 2019), pet ownership (Johnson & Bruneau, 2019), selfesteem (Buckingham et al, 2019), metacognition (Gascó et al, 2018), video games (Coulson et al, 2018), racial and gender inequalities in STEM (Casad et al, 2018), persuasion (Ackerman, 2018), eating behavior (Her & Seo, 2018) stereotyping (Dennehy et al, 2018), and cross-cultural differences (Park et al, 2018).…”

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Reflections on the 25th anniversary of Baumeister & Leary’s seminal paper on the need to belong

Gabriel

2020

Self and Identity

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This special issue celebrates the impact of Baumeister and Leary's paper on the need to belong on its 25 th birthday. This seminal work identified the importance of social connections for humans, suggested that the human need to belong is analogous to our needs for food and water, and identified the invisible hand that guides much of the research in social psychology. The first three articles in this special issue provide examples of how the need to belong has expanded from Baumeister and Leary's original conception of a need for close relationships to a broader need for all kinds of social connections. The next two articles demonstrate the impact of the need to belong. The final two papers give the final word to the paper's original authors, Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary.

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“Maybe it’s kind of normal to hear voices”: The role of spirituality in making sense of voice hearing

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

‘I Believe in Something; I Don’t Know What It Is’: An Exploration of Five British Hindus’ Worldviews Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

‘I Believe in Something; I Don’t Know What It Is’: An Exploration of Five British Hindus’ Worldviews Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Living in a world with God: An interpretative phenomenological exploration of the religious experiences of five Baptists in Britain

Reflections on the 25th anniversary of Baumeister & Leary’s seminal paper on the need to belong

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