The new sciences of religion
Subtitle: exploring spirituality from the outside in and bottom up
By: by William Grassie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230108776; 9780230108769
Description: Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenge of comparative religion; title: The old sciences of religion; title: The economics of religion; title: The evolution of religion; title: The neurosciences of religion; title: The medicine of religion; title: The narratives of religion; title: The new religion of science; title: God-by-whatever-name; title: Reiterations and reflections.