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Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science

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  1. Kelly Bulkeley
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Kelly Bulkeley
    Pages 1-9

  3. Genes, Brains, Minds: The Human Complex

    • Holmes Rolston III
    Pages 10-35

  4. Brain, Mind, and Spirit—A Clinician’s Perspective, or Why I Am Not Afraid of Dualism

    • James W. Jones
    Pages 36-60

  5. Psychoneurological Dimensions of Anomalous Experience in Relation to Religious Belief and Spiritual Practic

    • Stanley Krippner
    Pages 61-92

  6. Sacred Emotions

    • Robert A. Emmons
    Pages 93-112

  7. Where Neurocognition Meets the Master:Attention and Metacognition in Zen

    • Tracey L. Kahan, Patricia M. Simone
    Pages 113-137

  8. From Chaos to Self-Organization:The Brain, Dreaming, and Religious Experience

    • David Kahn
    Pages 138-158

  9. Converting:Toward a Cognitive Theory of Religious Change

    • Patricia M. Davis, Lewis R. Rambo
    Pages 159-173

  10. Cognitive Science and Christian Theology

    • Charlene P. E. Burns
    Pages 174-196

  11. Overcoming an Impoverished Ontology: Candrakirti and the Mind–Brain Problem

    • Richard K. Payne
    Pages 197-218

  12. Religion and Brain–Mind Science: Dreaming the Future

    • Kelly Bulkeley
    Pages 219-241

  13. Religion Out of Mind:The Ideology of Cognitive Science and Religion

    • Jeremy Carrette
    Pages 242-261

  14. Brain Science on Ethics:The Neurobiology of Making Choices

    • Walter J. Freeman
    Pages 262-264

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 265-278
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About this book

Soul, Psyche, Brain is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature. Kelly Bulkeley's book highlights some startling new developments in neuroscience that have many people rethinking spirituality, the mind-body connection, and cognition in general. Soul, Psyche, Brain explores questions like: what can knowledge about the neurological activities of the brain tell us about consciousness? And what are the practical implications of brain-mind science for ethics and moral reasoning?

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"Soul, Psyche, Brain has successfully re-set the starting point for any serious interdisciplinary conversation on the topic of religion. By so doing, this book at once updates all parties, levels the intellectual playing field, and lays open new possibilities for collaborative research-both reflective and empirical-on the topic of religion across a broad range of disciplines." - Nina P. Azari, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Hilo "Bulkeley provides a unique and valuable resource reporting from the cutting edges of the encounter between neuroscience and religion. Fields as diverse as emotion and dream studies, complexity theory, spiritual development, Christian and non-Christian theology - and more - contribute to the ferment. Those working in any or all of these areas will find here resources to stretch their mind." - Carol Rausch Albright, author of The Humanizing Brain: Where Religion and Neuroscience Meet

About the authors

KELLY BULKELEY, Ph.D., teaches Religion and Psychology at San Francisco Theological Seminary and at Santa Clara University, USA. He is a former President of the Association for the Study of Dreams and is the author of several books on dreams.

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