McNamara, Patrick, Ph.D. (Boston University)

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the study of self-transformation and mystical states through the methods of cognitive neuroscience. It will appeal to anyone interested in the scientific study of religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781108977890
• ISBN-10: 1108977898
• Artikelnr.: 63401403

Autorenporträt

Patrick McNamara is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northcentral University, California. For 20 years he was based at Boston University School of Medicine where he was Associate Professor of Neurology. He has published extensively on the topics of neurology and psychology of religion, including Religion, Neuroscience and the Self: A New Personalism (2020). He is a founding editor of Religion, Brain and Behavior, and co-founder of the Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: assumptions and reasons
2. On decentering
3. On the self and the divided self
4. The cultural and evolutionary background to the neuroscience of religion
5. Neurology of religious experiences
6. Psychedelics and religious experiences
7. Mystical experiences
8. Religious experiences and transformative experiences
9. Supernatural agents and god concepts
10. Ritual
11. Religious language
12. Group effects and religion.