Factor Analysis of the Mystical Scale in Yi Ethnic Group: Indigenous Psychologies and Universalism
This study explores the factor structure of mystical experience among 428 subjects comprised of Yi who practice Bimoism and Yi without a background in Bimoism. Explorative factor analyses results identified common facets across groups, and these facets could be formed into Stace’s three-factor struc...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 31, Pages: 81-92 |
| Further subjects: | B
Cultural sciences
B Religious sociology B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft B Gender studies |
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| Summary: | This study explores the factor structure of mystical experience among 428 subjects comprised of Yi who practice Bimoism and Yi without a background in Bimoism. Explorative factor analyses results identified common facets across groups, and these facets could be formed into Stace’s three-factor structure in both groups. Comparing factor structure and ordering, the experience of transcendence for Yi who practice Bimoism is more extrovertive than for Yi who don’t practice Bimoism, whose experience is more introvertive. These results lend strong support to the thesis that the phenomenology of mystical experience reveals a common experiential core that can be discerned across religious and spiritual traditions. These data not only demonstrate that mystical experience is universal but also that sociocultural and religious tradition influence how people organize those universal experiences. Our current study also supports the commonality of Mysticism at facet level, and unique factor structure in different groups supports the claim that different groups have different ways of organizing mystical experiences in line with their own indigenous psychologies. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004443969_006 |