<p>An award-winning scholar and practicing neuroscientist offers you 24 riveting lectures that explore the new and exciting field of neurotheology, a discipline aimed at understanding the connections between our brains and different kinds of religious phenomena.</p>
The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: A New Perspective on Ancient Questions
- 02: Why Do We Have a Spiritual Brain?
- 03: Brain Function and Religion
- 04: How Does Science Study Religion?
- 05: Believers and Atheists
- 06: Spiritual Development
- 07: The Myth-Making Brain
- 08: The Brain and Religious Rituals
- 09: The Biology of Spiritual Practices
- 10: Religion and Health
- 11: Religion and Mental Health
- 12: Religion and Brain Dysfunction
- 13: Transmitters to God
- 14: Stimulated States and Religious Experiences
- 15: Near-Death Experiences and the Brain
- 16: The Believing Brain
- 17: The Brain's Influence on Religious Ideas
- 18: Revelation, Salvation, and the Brain
- 19: The Brain's Influence on Religious Behavior
- 20: How the Brain Changes God
- 21: How God Changes the Brain
- 22: Why God Won't Go Away
- 23: The Mystical Mind
- 24: Reality and Beyond
Taught by
Andrew Newberg
