NeuroTheology : Brain, Science, Spirituality and Religious Experience

by Joseph, Rhawn; Newberg, Andrew, M.D.; Alper, Matthew; Albright Rausch, Carol; Persinger, Michael; James, William; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

• ISBN13: 9780971644588
• ISBN10: 0971644586
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr

Table of Contents

The Death of God	7	(9)
Friederich Nietzsche
Mythologies of Modern Science	9	(16)
R. Joseph
The Myth of the Big Bang	25	(20)
R. Joseph
Creation Science & the Myth of the Organic Soup	45	(36)
R. Joseph
The Death of Darwinism	81	(52)
R. Joseph
Theogenesis: The Intelligent Universe	133	(10)
William F. Hamilton III
Brains, Science, Nonordinary & Transcendent Experiences	143	(16)
William Braud
Zen into Science	159	(2)
Susan Blackmore
Bringing ``Neuro'' and ``Theology'' Together Again	161	(2)
Andrew Newberg
The Neuropsychology of Religion	163	(24)
Scott Atran
Religious Experience, Complexification, & the Image of God	187	(20)
Carol Rausch Albright
Interacting Cognitive Subsystems & Religious Meanings	207	(8)
Fraser Watts
A Social Cognition Interpretation of Neurotheological Events	215	(8)
Raymond F. Paloutzian
Thomas G. Fikes
Dirk Hutsebaut
Atheism, Religious Conversion & the Logic of God	223	(10)
Matthew Alper
The Neuropsychology of Aesthetic, Spiritual & Mystical States	233	(10)
E. G. d'Aquili
Andrew B. Newberg
Neuro-Theology, A Rather Skeptical Perspective	243	(4)
Massimo Pigliucci
On the ``Neuro'' in Neurotheology	247	(20)
Andrew B. Newberg
Jeremy Iversen
Experimental Simulation of the God Experience	267	(18)
Michael A. Persinger
The Evolutionary Origins of Spiritual Consciousness	285	(14)
Matthew Alper
Evolutionary Neurotheology & the Varieties of Religious Experience	299	(14)
Bruce MacLennan
Paleolithic Spiritual Evolution	313	(48)
R. Joseph
Near-Death Experiences: In or Out of the Body?	361	(10)
Susan Blackmore
After-Death, Astral Projection, Judgment Day & the Second Death	371	(32)
R. Joseph
Exploring the Contours of Mind & Consciousness Through Magico-Spiritual Techniques	403	(16)
Manie Eagar
Enmarie Potgieter
Drug-Induced God	419	(2)
Matthew Alper
Dreams, Spirits and the Soul	421	(18)
R. Joseph
The Study of ``Big Dreams''	439	(24)
Kelly Bulkeley
``Wired'' for Self-Destruction	463	(6)
Matthew Alper
Sex, Violence & Religious Experience	469	(56)
R. Joseph
Spiritual Helpers & Multiple Personality Disorder	525	(12)
Ralph B. Allison
Possession & Prophecy	537	(34)
R. Joseph
Anti-Christ, Armaggedon, Astronomy & the Science of Religion	571	(30)
R. Joseph
References	601