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001			ocm1048934813
003			OCoLC
005			20200821113917.0
008			180919s2019 caua b 001 0 eng c
010			_a2018045204
020			_a9781503609112 _q(hardcover ; _qalkaline paper)
020			_a1503609111 _q(hardcover ; _qalkaline paper)
020			_z9781503609181 _q(electronic book)
035			_a(OCoLC)1048934813
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042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aBL65 .I427 _bW54 2019
100	1		_aWigger, J. Bradley,
245	1	0	_aInvisible companions : _bencounters with imaginary friends, gods, ancestors, and angels / _cJ. Bradley Wigger.
264		1	_aStanford, California : _bStanford University Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a239 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
505	0	0	_gIntroduction : _tSee-through knowing -- _tLife-givers -- _tFlexible -- _tLogic and imagination -- _tSharing -- _tWild mind -- _tWho knows what? -- _tAncestors and angels -- _tGods and godsibbs -- _tOriginal knowing -- _tFriends of God.
520			_aFrom the US to Nepal, author J. Bradley Wigger travels five countries on three continents to hear children describe their invisible friends--one-hundred-year-old robins and blue dogs, dinosaurs and teapots, pretend families and shapeshifting aliens--companions springing from the deep well of childhood imagination. Drawing on these interviews, as well as a new wave of developmental research, he finds a fluid and flexible qualiy to the imaginative mind that is central to learning, to co-operation, and paradoxically, to real-world rationality. Yet Wigger steps beyond psychological territory to explore the religious significance of the kind of mind that develops relationships with invisible beings. Alongisde Cinderella the blue dog, Quack-Quack the duck, and Dino the dinosaur are angels, ancestors, spirits, and gods. What he uncovers is a profound capacity in the religious imagination to see through the surface of reality to more than meets the eye. Punctuated throughout by children's colourful drawings of their see-through interlocutors, the book is highly engaging and alternately endearing, moving, and humorous. Not just for parents or for those who work with children, Invisible Companions will appeal to anyone interested in our mind's creative and spiritual possibilities.
650		0	_aImaginary companions _xReligious aspects _vCross-cultural studies.
650		0	_aImagination _xReligious aspects _vCross-cultural studies.
650		0	_aImagination in children _vCross-cultural studies.
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