The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artifacts

IF 1.7 2区哲学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI:10.1080/10508619.2023.2196898

K. Messick, J. Jong, V. van Mulukom, M. Farias

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The psychological functions of the nontheistic sacred in a secular context (metal music culture) were examined for their consistency with previous studies of the sacred in religious contexts using two studies. The first experiment examined music as a form of nontheistic sacred through a comparison of death metal fans (n = 89) listening to death metal or hard rock. The second experiment examined how some metal cultural artifacts were perceived as sacred by metal fans (n = 52), and how their loss or defilement was experienced when compared to non-sacred artifacts. The first experiment found that the death metal music was perceived as more sacred than hard rock music to the metal community, it promoted higher levels of positive affect, and it was associated with significantly higher levels of prosocial behavioral intentions, social relatedness, mood maintenance, and self-awareness, with no differences in empathy and negative affect. The second experiment found that acts of desecration of sacred items, when compared to non-sacred items, led to a higher state of anger and the loss of the items led to significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms and anxiety. The two experiments present evidence that the nontheistic sacred is experienced within the secular context of metal music in terms of functions and effects consistent with previous literature exploring the sacred in religious contexts.

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无神论的神圣:金属音乐和人工制品的心理功能

摘要通过两项研究，考察了非宗教神圣在世俗语境（金属音乐文化）中的心理功能与以往对宗教语境中神圣的研究的一致性。第一个实验通过比较死亡金属迷（n = 89）听死亡金属或坚硬的岩石。第二个实验考察了一些金属文物是如何被金属爱好者视为神圣的（n = 52），以及与非神圣文物相比，它们的损失或玷污是如何经历的。第一个实验发现，对于金属社区来说，死亡金属音乐被认为比硬摇滚音乐更神圣，它促进了更高水平的积极情感，并且与更高程度的亲社会行为意图、社会关系、情绪维持和自我意识相关，而移情和负向情感没有差异。第二个实验发现，与非神圣物品相比，亵渎神圣物品的行为会导致更高的愤怒状态，而物品的丢失会导致更严重的抑郁症状和焦虑。这两个实验证明，非宗教的神圣是在金属音乐的世俗背景下体验到的，其功能和效果与之前在宗教背景下探索神圣的文献一致。

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International Journal for the Psychology of Religion Multiple-

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4.20

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期刊介绍： The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (IJPR) is devoted to psychological studies of religious processes and phenomena in all religious traditions. This journal provides a means for sustained discussion of psychologically relevant issues that can be examined empirically and concern religion in the most general sense. It presents articles covering a variety of important topics, such as the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion. The journal publishes research reports, brief research reports, commentaries on relevant topical issues, book reviews, and statements addressing articles published in previous issues. The journal may also include a major essay and commentaries, perspective papers of the theory, and articles on the psychology of religion in a specific country.