Concept

Neuroscience of religion

Overview

Study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Subjective character of experience
• Rumi
• Transcendence (philosophy)
• Meditation
• Hypothesis
• Newsweek
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging
• Pseudoscience
• Science
• Sufism
• Soul
• Pineal gland
• Scientific American
• Theology
• Buddhism
• Mystical or religious experience
• God
• Templeton Prize
• Hippocampus
• Anthropology
• Self
• Aldous Huxley
• Christian fundamentalism
• Asceticism

Opposing perspectives

• Spirituality
• Mystical or religious experience
• Psychology of religion

Place in the tradition

Part of Meaning of life.

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