Patrick McNamara | Cambridge University Press
What happens in the brain when we experience the sacred?
In The Neuroscience of Religious Experience, neuroscientist Patrick McNamara examines religious experience through neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and religious studies. He explores mystical experience, ritual, religious belief, altered states of consciousness, the sense of self, and the neurological dimensions of spirituality.
Rather than reducing religion to a purely biological phenomenon, McNamara investigates the remarkable complexity of the relationship between brain, mind, belief, ritual, and human religious experience.
A compelling academic volume for readers interested in anthropology, consciousness, mysticism, neuroscience, comparative religion, and the science of belief.
Details
Author: Patrick McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
First published: 2009
Edition: 2014 paperback
ISBN: 9781107428010
Condition: Good — visible cover wear/creasing; interior clean and intact
Patrick McNamara | Cambridge University Press
What happens in the brain when we experience the sacred?
In The Neuroscience of Religious Experience, neuroscientist Patrick McNamara examines religious experience through neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and religious studies. He explores mystical experience, ritual, religious belief, altered states of consciousness, the sense of self, and the neurological dimensions of spirituality.
Rather than reducing religion to a purely biological phenomenon, McNamara investigates the remarkable complexity of the relationship between brain, mind, belief, ritual, and human religious experience.
A compelling academic volume for readers interested in anthropology, consciousness, mysticism, neuroscience, comparative religion, and the science of belief.
Details
Author: Patrick McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
First published: 2009
Edition: 2014 paperback
ISBN: 9781107428010
Condition: Good — visible cover wear/creasing; interior clean and intact
