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Ep. 105 Epistemic Injustice, Psychosis, and Religious Experience with Jose Eduardo Porcher

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The Normalization of Mediumship

Mediumistic experiences are integral to many religious traditions throughout human history. In the West today, these can be found mostly in spiritualist churches. Many participants in Roxborough's study spoke about having an overwhelming fear that what they were going through was a form of mental illness. Such religious reframing of anomalous experiences through contact with a normalizing framework echoes early work by Chadwick and Bertwood.

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