Wesley J Wildman

Religious and Spiritual Experiences

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers an interpretation of a diverse variety of religious and spiritual experiences, based on their neurological features and internal qualities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9781107000087
• ISBN-10: 1107000084
• Artikelnr.: 31752561

Autorenporträt

Wesley J. Wildman is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Theology and Ethics at Boston University, where he directs the doctoral program in Religion and Science. His previous recent publications include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry (2010) and Science and Religious Anthropology (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Exploring a strange yet familiar landscape: a strategy for interpreting religious and spiritual experiences
2. Spirituality and the brain: a revolutionary scientific approach to religious and spiritual experiences
3. A smorgasbord of dangers and delights: the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experiences
4. Gateway to ultimacy: the importance of intense experiences
5. Can you trust your instincts? The cognitive reliability of religious and spiritual experiences
6. The brain-group nexus: the social power of religious and spiritual experiences
7. Make it start, make it stop! Religious and spiritual experiences in the future
8. Brains in bodies, persons in groups, and religion in nature: an integrative interpretation of religious and spiritual experiences
Glossary of key terms
Works cited.