Soul, Psyche, Brain New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science

by Bulkeley, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9781403965097
• ISBN10: 1403965099
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Soul, Psyche, Brain is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature. The book highlights some startling new developments in neuroscience that have many people rethinking spirituality, the mind-body connection, and cognition in general. Soul, Psyche, Brain explores questions like: What are the neurological effects of meditation and prayer? How does the mind develop psychological and spiritual self-awareness? And what are the practical implications of brain-mind science for religious faith and moral reasoning?

Author Biography

Kelly Bulkeley teaches at the Graduate Theological Union and John F. Kennedy University. He is author of Dreams: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(9)
Kelly Bulkeley
Chapter One Genes, Brains, Minds:The Human Complex	10	(26)
Holmes Rolston III
Chapter Two Brain, Mind, and Spirit—A Clinician's Perspective, or Why I Am Not Afraid of Dualism	36	(25)
James W. Jones
Chapter Three Psychoneurological Dimensions of Anomalous Experience in Relation to Religious Belief and Spiritual Practice	61	(32)
Stanley Krippner
Chapter Four Sacred Emotions	93	(20)
Robert A. Emmons
Chapter Five Where Neurocognition Meets the Master: Attention and Metacognition in Zen	113	(25)
Tracey L. Kahan and Patricia M. Simone
Chapter Six From Chaos to Self-Organization: The Brain, Dreaming, and Religious Experience	138	(21)
David Kahn
Chapter Seven Converting:Toward a Cognitive Theory of Religious Change	159	(15)
Patricia M. Davis and Lewis R. Rambo
Chapter Eight Cognitive Science and Christian Theology	174	(23)
Charlene P.E. Burns
Chapter Nine Overcoming an Impoverished Ontology: Candrakirti and the Mind—Brain Problem	197	(22)
Richard K. Payne
Chapter Ten Religion and Brain—Mind Science: Dreaming the Future	219	(23)
Kelly Bulkeley
Chapter Eleven Religion Out of Mind: The Ideology of Cognitive Science and Religion	242	(20)
Jeremy Carrette
Chapter Twelve Brain Science on Ethics: The Neurobiology of Making Choices	262	(3)
Walter J. Freeman
Index	265