The spiritual brain
Subtitle: science and religious experience
By: Andrew Newberg
Series: The great courses, science & mathematics, psychology; Great courses (Compact disc)
Publisher: Teaching Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781598038866
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Brain; Religious aspects; Theological anthropology; Human beings; Neurosciences
Notes: Transcript book to accompany Great Courses No. 1682.

Andrew Newberg, Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Table of contents: title: A new perspective on ancient questions --; title: Why do we have a spiritual brain? --; title: Brain function and religion --; title: How does science study religion? --; title: Believers and atheists --; title: Spiritual development --; title: The myth-making brain --; title: The brain and religious rituals --; title: The biology of spiritual practices --; title: Religion and health --; title: Religion and mental health --; title: Religion and brain dysfunction --; title: Transmitters to God --; title: Stimulated states and religious experiences --; title: Near-death experiences and the brain --; title: The believeing brain --; title: The brain's influence on religious ideas --; title: Revelation, salvation, and the brain --; title: The brain's influence on religious behavior --; title: How the brain changes God --; title: How God changes the brain --; title: Why God won't go away --; title: The mystical mind --; title: Reality and beyond.