{"id":42,"date":"2010-11-23T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/iwmc\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:12:05","slug":"session-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/iwmc\/session-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 6: Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apr 15, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Neuroscience and Religion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Examining implications of research in the cognitive sciences on understandings of religion, religious practice, and the study of theology.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Recommended reading:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/0591-2385.00236\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Murphy, N. 1999. \u201cPhysicalism Without Reductionism: Toward a Scientifically, Philosophically, and Theologically Sound Portrait of Human Nature.\u201d <em>Zygon <\/em>35(4):551-571<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.apu.edu\/%7Ejvanslyke\/Publications\/Peterson%20et.%20al.%20Rationality%20of%20Ultimate%20Concern.pdf\">Peterson,\u00a0G. R., M. Spezio, J. A. Van Slyke, K. Reimer, and W. Brown. 2010. \u201cThe Rationality of Ultimate Concern: Moral Exemplars, Theological Ethics, and the Science of Moral Cognition\u201d\u00a0<em>Theology and Science<\/em> 8(2):139-161.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/haidt07\/haidt07_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Haidt, J. 2009. &#8220;Moral psychology and the misunderstanding of religion.&#8221; <em>The believing primate: Scientific, philosophical, and theological reflections on the origin of religion.<\/em> J. Schloss &amp; M. Murray (eds.) New York: Oxford. pp. 278-291.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/~mnkylab\/publications\/recent\/EvolReligion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pyysia, I., and M.Hauser. 2009. The origins of religion: evolved adaptation or by-product?\u00a0<em>Trends in Cognitive Sciences<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russell, R. J., N. Murphy, T.C. Meyering, and M. A. Arbib.\u00a0<em>Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action<\/em>. Berkeley: Vatican Observatory Foundation; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Trimble, M.R. 2007. The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins  University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Newberg, A. B., E. G. D&#8217;Aquili, and V. Rause. 2001.\u00a0<em>Why God won&#8217;t go away : Brain science and the biology of belief<\/em>. New   York: Ballantine Books.<\/p>\n<p>Runehov, A.L.C. 2007.\u00a0<em>Sacred or Neural?: The Potential of Neuroscience to Explain Religious Experience<\/em>. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht<\/p>\n<p>Harris S, S.A. Sheth, M.S. Cohen. 2008. Functional neuroimaging of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty.\u00a0<em>Annals of Neurology<\/em> 63:141\u20137.<\/p>\n<p>Persinger MA. \u2018I would kill in God&#8217;s name:\u2019 role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability.\u00a0<em>Perceptual Motor Skills<\/em> (1997) 85:128\u201330<\/p>\n<p>Spezio, M.L. 2009. Interiority and Purpose: Emerging Points of Contact for Theology and the Neurosciences.<em>Theology and Science<\/em> 7(2):119-121.<\/p>\n<p>Ashbrook, J.B., and C.R. Albright. 1997.\u00a0<em>The Humanizing Brain: Where Religion and Neuroscience Meet.<\/em>Pilgrim Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 15, 2011 Neuroscience and Religion Examining implications of research in the cognitive sciences on understandings of religion, religious practice, and the study of theology. Recommended reading: Murphy, N. 1999. \u201cPhysicalism Without Reductionism: Toward a Scientifically, Philosophically, and Theologically Sound Portrait of Human Nature.\u201d Zygon 35(4):551-571. Peterson,\u00a0G. R., M. Spezio, J. A. Van Slyke, K. 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