Religion, Neuroscience and the Self: A New Personalism

ISBN-13: 9780367028961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 186 str.

Patrick McNamara

Opis

This book uses neuroscience discoveries concerning religious experiences, the Self and personhood to deepen, enhance and interrogate the theological and philosophical set of ideas known as Personalism.

Spis treści

Forward and Acknowledgements;1 The need for an eschatological personalism; 2 Previous personalisms; 3 Possible worlds and the agent intellect; 4 The Eschatological Dream Time; 5 Subjectivity and Privacy; 6 Eschatological ethics and the Kingdom of God; 7 Divided self, depersonalization and evil; 8 Conclusions

O autorze

Patrick McNamara is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northcentral University and Associate Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, USA. He has published multiple articles and books on the interaction of religion, the brain, personhood and the self. He was also a co-founder of the Institute for the Bio-cultural study of Religion as well as the journal Religion, Brain and Behavior.