Wesley J. Wildman

Religious and Spiritual Experiences

• Broschiertes 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: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781107423459
• ISBN-10: 1107423457
• Artikelnr.: 41452485

Autorenporträt

Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics in Boston University's School of Theology, an ordained minister in the Uniting Church of Australia, and occasional teacher of preaching. He has written numerous books presenting a radical mystical theological understanding of ultimate reality, including most recently In Our Own Image: Anthropomorphism, Apophaticism, and Ultimacy (2017) and Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language (2018).

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.