"The neuroscience of religion, also known as neurotheology and as spiritual neuroscience, attempts to explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms."
The study of the relationship between the brain and religious experience.
"It is the study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena."
"This contrasts with the psychology of religion which studies mental, rather than neural states."
"Proponents of the neuroscience of religion say there is a neurological and evolutionary basis for subjective experiences traditionally categorized as spiritual or religious."
"The field has formed the basis of several popular science books."
"…correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality..."
"...explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms."
"...studies mental, rather than neural states."
"...neurological and evolutionary basis for subjective experiences traditionally categorized as spiritual or religious."
"...correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality…"
"...hypotheses to explain these phenomena."
"The field has formed the basis of several popular science books."
"The neuroscience of religion, also known as neurotheology and as spiritual neuroscience..."
"Subjective experiences traditionally categorized as spiritual or religious."
"...explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms."
"Correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences…"
"...explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms."
"Proponents of the neuroscience of religion say there is a neurological and evolutionary basis for subjective experiences traditionally categorized as spiritual or religious."
"...explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms. This contrasts with the psychology of religion which studies mental, rather than neural states."
"The field has formed the basis of several popular science books."