Where God and science meet : how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion /
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Publishers,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. Evolution, genes, and the religious brain
- v. 2. The neurology of religious experience
- v. 3. The psychology of religious experience.
- Contents of 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 Pyysièainen
- The significance of the evolution of religious belief and behavior for religious studies and theology / Wesley J. Wildman.
- Contents of v. 2: The chemistry of religiosity : evidence from patients with Parkinson's disease / Patrick McNamara ... [et al.]
- 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.
- Contents of 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.