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9780739133927

Neuroscience and Religion Brain, Mind, Self, and Soul

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    9780739133927

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    0739133926

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-08-16
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

For religious persons, the notion of human being is tied inextricably to the notion of God (or the gods) and turns on this question: What is human being? How did we, with our almost infinite capacities for thought, change, and domination, come to be? Imbued with powers far beyond any other animal, humans are too faulty to be considered gods themselves. Yet the idea of God (or the gods) appears in all distinctive human cultures: it names the other pole of human-it designates a being who realizes perfectly our imperfectly realized nature.

Author Biography

Volney P. 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 at University. He is also a faculty member of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tablesp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Neuroscience and Religion: Brain, Mind, Self, and Soulp. 1
A Conversation on Neuroscience and Religionp. 19
Science, Religion, and Three Shades of Black Boxesp. 37
Neuroscience, Theory of Mind, and the Status of Human-Level Truthp. 67
Downward Causation and Religionp. 109
Rapid Advances in Human Brain-Machine Interfacing: Ethical and Social Implicationsp. 125
The Neuroscience of Religious Experience: An Introductory Surveyp. 153
Actions, Reasons, Neurons, and Causesp. 175
Human Universals and Human Naturep. 199
Religion, Science, and Cognition: Explorations in Pluralistic Integrationp. 217
The Little Divine Machine: The Soul/Body Problem Revisitedp. 241
Looking Forward: The Question of Brain, Mind, Self, and Soulp. 271
Indexp. 279
About the Contributors and Intervieweesp. 285
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