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The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience

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English
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12 hours 18 minutes
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Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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<p>An award-winning scholar and practicing neuroscientist offers you 24 riveting lectures that explore the new and exciting field of neurotheology, a discipline aimed at understanding the connections between our brains and different kinds of religious phenomena.</p>

Syllabus

01: A New Perspective on Ancient Questions
02: Why Do We Have a Spiritual Brain?
03: Brain Function and Religion
04: How Does Science Study Religion?
05: Believers and Atheists
06: Spiritual Development
07: The Myth-Making Brain
08: The Brain and Religious Rituals
09: The Biology of Spiritual Practices
10: Religion and Health
11: Religion and Mental Health
12: Religion and Brain Dysfunction
13: Transmitters to God
14: Stimulated States and Religious Experiences
15: Near-Death Experiences and the Brain
16: The Believing Brain
17: The Brain's Influence on Religious Ideas
18: Revelation, Salvation, and the Brain
19: The Brain's Influence on Religious Behavior
20: How the Brain Changes God
21: How God Changes the Brain
22: Why God Won't Go Away
23: The Mystical Mind
24: Reality and Beyond
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Taught by

Andrew Newberg

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