Where God And Science Meet: How Brain And Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion

ISBN13：9780275987886
出版社：Praeger Pub Text
作者：Patrick H. McNamara (EDT)
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出版日：2006/09/30
關鍵字： Where God And Science Meet: How Brain And Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion、 Where、 God、 And、 Science、 Meet、 How、 Brain、 Evolutionary、 Studies、 Alter、 Our、 Understanding、 of、 Religion、 Praeger Pub Text、 Patrick H. McNamara (EDT)、外文書、

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Spiritual practices, or awakenings, have an impact on brain, mind and personality. These changes are being scientifically predicted and proven. For example, studies show Buddhist priests and Franciscan nuns at the peak of religious feelings show a functional change in the lobes of their brain. Similar processes have been found in people with epilepsy, which Hippocrates called "the sacred disease." New research is showing that not only does a person's brain activity change in particular areas while that person is experiencing religious epiphany, but such events can be created for some people, even self-professed atheists, by stimulating various parts of the brain. In this far-reaching and novel set, experts from across the nation and around the world present evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological approaches to explaining and exploring religion, including the newest findings and evidence that have spurred the fledgling field of neurotheology.

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Patrick McNamara is Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory in the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, and the VA New England Healthcare System. He is also Assistant Professor of Neurology at the same sites. He is currently developing an evolutionary approach to problems of brain and behavior, and studying the evolution of the frontal lobes, the two mammalian sleep states (REM and NREM) and the evolution of religion in cultures. He is trained in behavioral neuorscience, neurolinguistics and brain-cognitive correlation techniques. He pioneered investigation of the role of the frontal lobes in mediation of religious experience.