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Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion

Such experiences seem to exist outside time and space - caused by the brain for some reason losing its perception of a boundary between physical body and outside world - and could help explain other intangible events, such as altered states of consciousness, possessions, alien visitations, near-death experiences and out-of-body events.
Print Book, English, 2006
Praeger Publishers, Westport, Conn., 2006
[études diverses]
3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780275987886, 9780275987893, 9780275987909, 9780275987916, 0275987884, 0275987892, 0275987906, 0275987914
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v. 1. Evolution, genes, and the religious brain
v. 2. The neurology of religious experience
v. 3. The psychology of religious experience. v. 1 : The evolutionary psychology of religion / Steven Pinker
Sacred emotions and affective neuroscience : gratitude, costly signaling, and the brain / Robert A. Emmons and Patrick McNamara
Genetic and environmental influences on the traditional moral values triad
authoritarianism, conservatism, and religiousness
as assessed by quantitative behavior genetics methods / Laura B. Koenig and Thomas J. Bouchard Jr
Religious behaviors, badges, and bans : signaling theory and the evolution of religion / Richard Sosis
Nature's medicine : religiosity as an adaptation for health and cooperation / Joseph Bulbulia
The cognitive psychology of belief in the supernatural / Jesse M. Bering
The ritual healing theory : therapeutic suggestion and the origin of religion / James McClenon
Religion is not an adaptation / Lee A. Kirkpatrick
The cognitive and evolutionary roots of religion / Scott Atran
Amazing grace : religion and the evolution of the human mind / Ilkka Pyysiäinen
The significance of the evolution of religious belief and behavior for religious studies and theology / Wesley J. Wildman. v. 2 : The chemistry of religiosity : evidence from patients with Parkinson's disease / Patrick McNamara [et autres]
Religious and spiritual practices : a neurochemical perspective / Andrew B. Newberg
Neuroimaging studies of religious experience : a critical review / Nina P. Azari
Religion and the life course : is adolescence and "experience expectant" period for religious transmission? / Candace S. Alcorta
Neurotheology : a science of what? / Matthew Ratcliffe
Religion as a by-product of evolved psychology : the case of attachment and implications for brain and religion research / Pehr Granquist
Religious conversion, spiritual transformation, and the neurocognition of meaning making / Raymond E. Paloutzian, Erica L. Swenson, and Patrick McNamara
Religion and the brain : evidence from temporal lobe epilepsy / Steven C. Schachter
The frontal lobes and the evolution of cooperation and religion / Patrick McNamara
Mind design and the capacity for ritual performance / Carl Seaquist
The brain, religion, and baseball : comments on the potential for a neurology of religion and religious experience / Warren S. Brown. v. 3 : The neuropharmacology of religious experience : hallucinogens and the experience of the divine / David E. Nichols and Benjamin R. Chemel
The relationship between religion and health / Andrew B. Newberg and Bruce Y. Lee
Religion, meaning, and the brain / Crystal L. Park and Patrick McNamara
The darker side of religion : risk factors for poorer health and well-being / Gina Magyar-Russell and Kenneth Pargament
The common core thesis in the study of mysticism / Ralph W. Hood, Jr
Cross-cultural assessments of shamanism as a biogenetic foundation for religion / Michael Winkelman
Schizophrenia, neurology, and religion : what can psychosis teach us about the evolutionary role of religion? / Steven A. Rogers and Raymond F. Paloutzian
Between yang and yin and heaven and hell : untangling the complex relationship between religion and intolerance / Ian Hansen and Ara Norenzayan
The origins of dreaming / Kelly Bulkeley
Chemical input, religious output : entheogens : a pharmatheology sampler / Thomas B. Roberts
An illusion of the future : temptations and possibilities / Keith G. Meador