UID:
almafu_9960752637702883
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 264 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-108-96849-X
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1-108-96831-7
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1-108-97349-3
Uniform Title:
Neuroscience of religious experience
Content:
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience, now updated and expanded in a new edition, updates key topics covered in the first edition including: decentering and self-transformation, supernatural agent cognitions, mystical states, religious language, ritualization, and religious group agency. It expands upon the first edition to include major findings on brain and religious experience over the past decade, focusing on methodology, future thinking, and psychedelics. It provides an up-to-date review of brain-based accounts of religious experiences, and systematically examines the rationale for utilizing neuroscience approaches to religion. While it is primarily intended for religious studies scholars, people interested in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, cultural evolution, and personal self-transformation will find an account of how such transformation is accomplished within religious contexts.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jun 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Assumptions and Reasons -- Why Use Neuroscience to Study Religion? -- Religion Definition -- Assumptions Concerning Evolution of Religion, Brain and Culture -- Sexual Conflict -- Biocultural Approach -- The 4E Framework -- Social Brain -- The Predictive Processing Framework -- Final Assumption: Religion as a Transformational Technology -- Chapter 2 On Decentering -- Introduction -- Decentering and Surprise -- Model Parameter Updating Via REM and Dreams -- The Four-Step Process -- Pivotal Mental States and Decentering -- Decentering Steps 1 and 2 and Generation of SAs -- Step 1 Diminution in Sense of Agency/Self -- Step 2 Self-Concept Transferred into Suppositional Liminal Space -- Step 3 Cultural Scripts and Reconstruction of the Ego -- Step 4 Reconstruction of Self-Concept and Reassertion of Executive Control -- Evolution of Decentering -- Chapter 3 On the Self and the Divided Self -- Introduction -- The Self -- The Divided Self -- Genetics of the Divided Self -- Dialogic Self and the Emergence of Agency -- Agency as a Culturally Shaped but Intrapsychic Unifying Force -- Theory of the Ideal Future Self -- Breakdowns in the Self -- Schizophrenia, Divided Self and Religion -- The Divided Self and Social Cooperation -- The Self, PPF and Rapid Eye Movement Sleep -- Chapter 4 The Cultural and Evolutionary Background to the Neuroscience of Religion -- REM Sleep and Dreams as Critical for Cumulative Cultural Evolution -- Humans Differentially Invested in REM in the Upper Paleolithic -- Brain Mechanisms in REM Overlap with Social Learning Networks -- The Evolution of Visionary Mystical Religion and Shamanism -- Shamanism -- The Case of Schizophrenia -- Chapter 5 Neurology of Religious Experiences.
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Introduction -- Initial Studies on Brain and Religion -- TLE and Hyperreligiosity -- Frontotemporal Dementia and Hyperreligiosity -- Explanations of Hyperreligiosity -- Schizophrenia and Hyperreligiosity -- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Hyperreligiosity -- Benjamin -- Ephraim -- Other Disorders Associated with an Increase in Religiousness -- Neuroimaging of Religiosity -- Disorders Involving Decreased Access to Religiousness Measure -- Parkinson's Disease -- Chapter 6 Psychedelics and Religious Experiences -- Introduction -- Psychedelics Can Induce Genuine Religious Experiences -- Brain Effects of Serotoninergic Psychedelics -- Explanations of Brain Effects of Psychedelics -- The Link with Religious Experiences -- Neurology of Entity Encounters on Psychedelics -- Chapter 7 Mystical Experiences -- Introduction -- Mystical Experiences: Definition -- Existing Neurological Data on Mystical Experiences -- PPF Model of Mystical Experiences -- Near Death Experiences as Mystical Experiences -- REM and Mystical States -- Chapter 8 Religious Experiences and Transformative Experiences -- Introduction -- The Divided Self and Transformative Experience -- Predictive Processing Framework and Self Transformation -- The Dialogic Self and Transformative Experiences -- Conversion -- Dreams and Transformative Experiences -- The Self and Its Transformation in Islamic Mystical Practices -- Why Does Religion Seek to Transform the Self ? -- Religious Ritual Facilitates Transformative Experience -- Liminal Reality as the Transformative State -- Death and Transformative Experience -- Chapter 9 Supernatural Agents and God Concepts -- Introduction -- SAs as Anxiety Buffers -- SAs and Attachment -- Mental Representations of SAs -- 3D Mind Model and SAs -- Counterintuitive Concepts and SAs -- REM Sleep, Dreams and SAs -- SAs and Psychedelics -- Chapter 10 Ritual.
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Introduction -- Ritualization -- Characteristics of Human Ritualization -- Ritualization, Sexual Conflict and Group Signaling -- Neurology of Ritualization -- Ritualization Narrative and Myth -- The Divine Kings as SAs -- Rituals and Sacrifice -- Chapter 11 Religious Language -- Introduction -- Agency and Religious Language -- Features of Religious Language -- Speech Acts and Decentering -- The Neurology of Speech Acts -- The Self and Religious Language -- Religious Language and Metaphor -- Ineffability and Language -- Chapter 12 Group Effects and Religion -- Introduction -- Individual versus Group Relations -- Ancestral Group Formations -- Male Groups -- Enterprise Associations -- Structure of Enterprise Associations -- Group Agency -- Religious Evolution and Enterprise Associations -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-83317-9
Language:
English
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