The method of imagination

Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. The book "The Method of Imagination" is aimed at expanding the knowledge about imaginative processes as higher mental function, by starting from the empiric...

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Other Authors Brown, Sheldon G. (Editor), Tateo, Luca (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2019.
SeriesInnovations in qualitative research.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607174
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-473-6
Physical Description1 online resource (302 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The method of imagination / Luca Tateo and Sheldon Brown
  • Chapter 1. Imagination as a method: Intuition, empathy and innovation within qualitative research practices / Maria Cláudia Santos Lopes-de-Oliveira
  • Chapter 2. A textual political imagination / Kevin R. Carriere
  • Chapter 3. New wine into old wineskins: Examining nationalism as a secular religion / Ignacio Brescó de Luna and Luis Martínez-Guerrero
  • Chapter 4. Pilgrimage and imagination: You can't have one without the other / Morten Bech Kristensen
  • Chapter 5. The reciprocation of materialized imagination: Thinking materiality and technology into everyday imagination and engagements / Stephan Sieland
  • Chapter 6. Searching for the sense of suffering: Looking through the lens of enchanted and disenchanted worldviews / Lucas B. Mazur
  • Chapter 7. Imagination and wish-fulfillment: Disneyland through the lens of a 5-year-old / Filipa Krolo
  • Chapter 8. Castle in box: How immersion and rational reflection, work together for effective intervention / Shuangshuang Xu, Xiao-Wen Li, and Jiang Wang
  • Chapter 9. The "how" and "why" of triggered imagination in football: Evoking attitudes of play, originality, and open-mindedness / Ludvig Johan Torp Rasmussen
  • Chapter 10. Supporting imagination in the context of work / Ditte Kolbaek
  • Chapter 11. Religion as a form of everyday conceptual thought: Evidence from orthodox icons / Aaro Toomela
  • Chapter 12. The psychological imagination of religion: A study on secularization / Sven Hroar Klempe and Giuseppina Marsico
  • Chapter 13. Psychology far beyond imagination: The construction of the person in the rites and rituals for escorting the deceased in the ajatado of dogbo culture in benin / Kwami Fleury Serge Kiki and Danilo Silva Guimarães
  • Chapter 14. Faith and religion as a resource of meaning in the care of rare disease / Altomare Enza Zagaria, Rosa Scardigno, and Giuseppe Mininni
  • About the authors.