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The new frontier of religion and science : religious experience, neuroscience and the transcendent / John Hick

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Description: xii, 228 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230507708 (cloth)
  • 0230507700 (cloth)
  • 9780230507715 (paper)
  • 0230507719 (paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 261.55 H627N
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .H4935 2006
Contents:
Religion as human institutions -- Spirituality and mysticism -- What is religious experience? -- 'By their fruits you will know them' -- The neurosciences' challenge to religious experience -- Caveats and questions -- Mind/brain identity? -- Current naturalistic theories -- The alternative possibility -- Free will? -- The epistemological problem -- The epistemological solution -- Any particular religion? -- Responses to religious diversity -- A philosophy of religious pluralism -- Pluralism and the religions -- Spirituality for today -- After death?
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 261.55 H627N (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 061584

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-224) and index

Religion as human institutions -- Spirituality and mysticism -- What is religious experience? -- 'By their fruits you will know them' -- The neurosciences' challenge to religious experience -- Caveats and questions -- Mind/brain identity? -- Current naturalistic theories -- The alternative possibility -- Free will? -- The epistemological problem -- The epistemological solution -- Any particular religion? -- Responses to religious diversity -- A philosophy of religious pluralism -- Pluralism and the religions -- Spirituality for today -- After death?

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