“What do I know?” Scholastic fallacies and pragmatic religiosity in mental health-seeking behaviour in India
“What do I know?” Scholastic fallacies and pragmatic religiosity in mental health-seeking behaviour in India
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“我知道什么？”印度寻求心理健康行为中的学术谬误和务实宗教信仰
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2013
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Johannes Quack
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Johannes Quack
本文借鉴了在印度北部的精神科医生和他们的病人（他们的照顾者和他们的社区）的民族志田野调查。它解决了人们何时以及为何求助于精神科医生和宗教治疗师的问题，认为评估“解释性模型”和其他与人们寻求健康行为相关的知识结构的方法应更多地强调人们以任何可能的方式获得健康的强烈愿望。其次，必须承认植根于患者生活世界的信念与专家向他们提出的解释之间的差异。这些见解促使人们从“宗教”的概念转向实用主义和学术宗教之间的区别。这一论点与汉斯-格奥尔格·伽达默尔（Hans-Georg Gadamer）所理解的“pragma”的希腊含义有关，即“我们在其中纠缠于生活的实践”。
This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork on psychiatrists and their patients (their care-givers and their communities) in North India. It addresses the questions as to when and why people approach psychiatrists and religious healers by arguing that approaches assessing “explanatory models” and other knowledge structures relevant to the people's health-seeking behaviour should place more emphasis on the people's strong desire to get well, in any way possible. Secondly, the difference between beliefs rooted in the patients’ life-worlds and explanations suggested to them by experts has to be acknowledged. These insights motivate a shift away from the concept “religion” towards the differentiation between pragmatic and scholastic religiosities. This argument relates back to the Greek meaning of “pragma” understood by Hans-Georg Gadamer as “that within which we are entangled in the praxis of living”.