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Religious and Spiritual Experiences

  • Date Published: September 2014
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107423459

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  • What is the value of religious and spiritual experiences within human life? Are we evolutionarily programmed to have such experiences? How will emerging technologies change such experiences in the future? Wesley Wildman addresses these key intellectual questions and more, offering a spiritually evocative naturalist interpretation of the diverse variety of religious and spiritual experiences. He describes these experiences, from the common to the exceptional, and offers innovative classifications for them based on their neurological features and internal qualities. His account avoids reductionistic oversimplifications and instead synthesizes perspectives from many disciplines, including philosophy and natural sciences, into a compelling account of the meaning and value of religious and spiritual experiences in human life. The resulting interpretation does not assume a supernatural worldview but incorporates religious and spiritual experiences into a positive affirmation of this-worldly existence.

    • Draws on first-hand experience in neurological research as well as in philosophical analysis of religious and spiritual experiences
    • Includes a look at a wide variety of spiritual and religious experiences, offering innovative description and neurologically rooted classification of these experiences
    • Offers a multidisciplinary approach, demonstrating the insights which are evident in a wider scheme of interpretation
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    • Date Published: September 2014
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781107423459
    • length: 320 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.472kg
    • contains: 10 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    1. Exploring a strange yet familiar landscape: a strategy for interpreting religious and spiritual experiences
    2. Spirituality and the brain: a revolutionary scientific approach to religious and spiritual experiences
    3. A smorgasbord of dangers and delights: the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experiences
    4. Gateway to ultimacy: the importance of intense experiences
    5. Can you trust your instincts? The cognitive reliability of religious and spiritual experiences
    6. The brain-group nexus: the social power of religious and spiritual experiences
    7. Make it start, make it stop! Religious and spiritual experiences in the future
    8. Brains in bodies, persons in groups, and religion in nature: an integrative interpretation of religious and spiritual experiences
    Glossary of key terms
    Works cited.

  • Author

    Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University
    Wesley J. Wildman is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Theology and Ethics at Boston University, where he directs the doctoral program in Religion and Science. His previous recent publications include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry (2010) and Science and Religious Anthropology (2009).

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