Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- 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
- References
- Index
Glossary of key terms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- 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
- References
- Index
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- Religious and Spiritual Experiences , pp. 266 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011