Neuroscience of Spirituality

Andrew B. Newberg and Daniel Monti

Chapter 4 in Handbook of Spirituality and Business, 2011, pp 26-33 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For a synthesis of neuroscience and spirituality to be successful, an understanding and preservation of the fundamentals of science must be merged with an analysis of the cognitive elements of religious and spiritual experiences. This requires an analysis, and perhaps even a definition, of religious and spiritual experience from a neurocognitive perspective. Once a working definition is considered, the cognitive and emotional elements of those experiences can be considered and evaluated on both a theoretical and potentially empirical basis. This can lead to the larger development of a neuroscience of s pirituality.

Keywords: Single Photon Emission Compute Tomography; Religious Experience; Spiritual Experience; Superior Parietal Lobe; Single Photon Emission Compute Tomography Study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230321458_4

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