Neuroscience and Religion

Brain, Mind, Self, and Soul
Herausgeber: Gay, Volney P.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a unique set of multidisciplinary reflections on how the neurosciences shape our understanding of religious experience and religious institutions. Twelve scholars and scientists assess how advances in the neurosciences affect our traditional sense of mind, self, and soul.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780739133927
• ISBN-10: 0739133926
• Artikelnr.: 26368864

Autorenporträt

Volney Gay is professor and chair of religious studies, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, professor of psychiatry, and professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He is also a faculty member of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Neuroscience and Religion: Brain, Mind, Self, and
Soul
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. A Conversation on Neuroscience and Religion
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Science, Religion, and Three Shades of Black Boxes
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Neuroscience, Theory of Mind, and the Status of
Human-Level Truth
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Downward Causation and Religion
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Rapid Advances in Human Brain-Machine Interfacing:
Ethical and Social Implications
Chapter 7 Chapter 6. The Neuroscience of Religious Experience: An
Introductory Survey
Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Actions, Reasons, Neurons, and Causes
Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Human Universals and Human Nature
Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Religion, Science, and Cognition: Explorations in
Pluralistic Integration
Chapter 11 Chapter 10. "The Little Divine Machine": The Soul/Body Problem
Revisited
Chapter 12 Conclusion: Looking Forward: The Question of Brain, Mind, Self,
and Soul

Rezensionen

With the growth in cognitive and neuroscientific study of religion, important questions are beginning to arise. This unique multidisciplinary collection of essays flags numerous issues that scholars will have to tackle for the field to realize its full potential. -- Justin L. Barrett, University of Oxford Contributors to this volume plunge headlong into the contested relationship between science and religion to question whether there is, in an age of materialistic neuroscience, any unique reality that constitutes the 'human.' Although their answers are diverse, ranging from attempts to justify 'soul' (and hence religion) to scientific reductions of notions of soul, there is much of interest to be found in their considerations. -- Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont