A Room of One's Own: Autistic Imagination as a Stage for Parasocial Interaction and Social Learning
This article examines the role and function of imagination and parasocial (fiction-based) relations among autistic individuals. In interviews, seventeen high functioning, autistic young adults describe how they frequently absorb into daydreams, fantasy literature and multiplayer online roleplaying g...
Subtitles: | Special Issue: Imagination & Religion |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Equinox Publ.
[2019]
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In: |
Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-124 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Autism
/ Teenagers
/ Imagination
/ Parasoziale Interaktion
/ Imaginary places
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion |
Further subjects: | B
Autism
B Imagination B parasocial relations B Religion B Cognition B multimodal integration B Coping |
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