Bogi Takács's review of Invisible Companions

Impulse borrow from the new shelf of my university library. An interesting hybrid work, from a religious studies scholar who performed both qualitative and quantitative (!) cross-cultural (!!) investigations of children's imaginary friends. (He does talk about how "imaginary" is kind of stigmatizing, and he learned to avoid this terminology in interviews - but it is the usual term in the literature, so I suppose that is why it is in the subtitle.) The book reads very conversational, rather unlike an academic volume, but this makes it a good read for anyone interested in the topic and not j...