The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience
Cambridge University Press eBooks June 2, 2022 P. Mcnamara 35 citations
This updated and expanded edition reviews brain-based accounts of religious experiences, covering decentering, self-transformation, supernatural agent cognitions, mystical states, religious language, ritualization, and religious group agency. It incorporates major findings from the past decade on methodology, future thinking, and psychedelics, and systematically examines the rationale for using neuroscience approaches to religion. The account is intended for religious studies scholars and those interested in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, cultural evolution, and personal self-transformation, explaining how such transformation occurs within religious contexts.