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Author McNamara, Patrick, 1956- author.

Title The cognitive neuroscience of religious experience : decentering and the self / Patrick McNamara
Edition Second edition
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Summary 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
Notes Previous edition: published as The neuroscience of religious experience. 2009
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Psychology, Religious.
Evolutionary psychology.
psychology of religion.
Evolutionary psychology
Psychology, Religious
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108968492
110896849X
9781108973496
1108973493
Other Titles Neuroscience of religious experience