Where God and Science Meet How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion:-3 Vol.Set

includes index and biblioraphy

Vol.1:-Evolution,Genes,and the Religious Brain CHAPTER 1 The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion 1 Steven Pinker CHAPTER 2 Sacred Emotions and Affective Neuroscience:Gratitude, Costly Signaling, and the Brain 11 Robert A. Emmons and Patrick McNamara CHAPTER 3 Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Traditional Moral Values Triad-Authoritarianism, Conservatism, and Religiousness-as Assessed by Quantitative Behavior Genetic Methods 31 Laura B. Koenig and Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. CHAPTER 4 Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans:Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion 61 Richard Sosis CHAPTER 5 Nature`s Medicine: Religiosity as an Adaptation for Health and Cooperation 87 Joseph Bulbulia CHAPTER 6 The Cognitive Psychology of Belief in the Supernatural 123 Jesse M. Bering CHAPTER 7 The Ritual Healing Theory: Therapeutic Suggestion and the Origin of Religion 135 James McClenon CHAPTER 8 Religion Is Not an Adaptation 159 Lee A. Kirkpatrick CHAPTER 9 The Cognitive and Evolutionary Roots of Religion 181 Scott Atran CHAPTER 10 Amazing Grace: Religion and the Evolution of the Human Mind 209 Ilkka Pyysidinen CHAPTER 11 The Significance of the Evolution of Religious Belief and Behavior for Religious Studies and Theology 227 Wesley J. Wildman Vol.2:-The Neurology of Religious Experience CHAPTER 1 The Chemistry of Religiosity: Evidence from Patients with Parkinson`s Disease 1 Patrick McNamara, Raymon Durso, Ariel Brown,and Erica Harris CHAPTER 2 Religious and Spiritual Practices:A Neurochemical Perspective 15 Andrew B. Newberg CHAPTER 3 Neuroimaging Studies of Religious Experience: A Critical Review 33 Nina P. Azan CHAPTER 4 Religion and the Life Course: Is Adolescence an "Experience Expectant" Period for Religious Transmission? 55 Candace S. Alcorta CHAPTER 5 Neurotheology: A Science of What? 81 Matthew Ratcliffe CHAPTER 6 Religion as a By-Product of Evolved Psychology: The Case of Attachment and Implications for Brain and Religion Research 105 Pehr Granqvist CHAPTER 7 Religious Conversion, Spiritual Transformation, and the Neurocognition of Meaning Making 151 Raymond F. Paloutzian, Erica L. Swenson, and Patrick McNamara CHAPTER 8 Religion and the Brain: Evidence from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy 171 Steven C. Schachter CHAPTER 9 The Frontal Lobes and the Evolution of Cooperation and Religion 189 Patrick McNamara CHAPTER 10 Mind Design and the Capacity for Ritual Performance 205 Carl Seaquist CHAPTER 11 The Brain, Religion, and Baseball:Comments on the Potential for a Neurology of Religion and Religious Experience 229 Warren S. Brown Vol.3:-The Psychology of Religious Experience CHAPTER 1 The Neuropharmacology of Religious Experience: Hallucinogens and the Experience of the Divine 1 David E. Nichols and Benjamin R. Chemel CHAPTER 2 The Relationship between Religion and Health 35 Andrew B. Newberg and Bruce T. Lee CHAPTER 3 Religion, Meaning, and the Brain 67 Crystal L. Park and Patrick McNamara CHAPTER 4 The Darker Side of Religion: Risk Factors for Poorer Health and Well-Being 91 Gina Magyar-Russell and Kenneth Pargament CHAPTER 5 The Common Core Thesis in the Study of Mysticism 119 Ralph W. Hood, Jr. CHAPTER 6 Cross-Cultural Assessments of Shamanism as a Biogenetic Foundation for Religion 139 Michael Winkelman CHAPTER 7 Schizophrenia, Neurology, and Religion:What Can Psychosis Teach Us about the Evolutionary Role of Religion? 161 Steven A. Rogers and Raymond F. Paloutzian CHAPTER 8 Between Yang and Yin and Heaven and Hell:Untangling the Complex Relationship between Religion and Intolerance 187 lan Hansen and Ara Norenzayan CHAPTER 9 The Origins of Dreaming 213 Kelly Bulkeley CHAPTER 10 Chemical Input, Religious Output-Entheogens: A Pharmatheology Sampler 235 Thomas B. Ro

V1. Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain.-- V2. Neurology of Religious Experience.-- V3. Psychology of Religious Experience.