Soul, Psyche, Brain

"Soul, Psyche, Brain" is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature. Kelly Bulkeley's book highlights some startling new developments in neuroscience that have many people rethinking spirituality, the mind-body connection, and cognition in general. "Soul, Psyche, Brain" explores questions like: what can knowledge about the neurological activities of the brain tell us about consciousness? And what are the practical implications of brain-mind science for ethics and moral reasoning?

ISBN 1403965099   Pages 304 ISBN13 9781403965097 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave USA   Weight (grammes) 413 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Gordonsville Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 02 Nov 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2005040552   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 201.6153   Academic level Tertiary education, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction by Kelly Bulkeley		1
Ch. 1		Genes, brains, minds : the human complex by Holmes Rolston III		10
Ch. 2		Brain, mind, and spirit - a clinician's perspective, or why I am not afraid of dualism by James W. Jones		36
Ch. 3		Psychoneurological dimensions of anomalous experience in relation to religious belief and spiritual practice by Stanley Krippner		61
Ch. 4		Sacred emotions by Robert A. Emmons		93
Ch. 5		Where neurocognition meets the master : attention and metacognition in Zen by Tracey L. Kahan and Patricia M. Simone		113
Ch. 6		From chaos to self-organization : the brain, dreaming, and religious experience by David Kahn		138
Ch. 7		Converting : toward a cognitive theory of religious change by Patricia M. Davis and Lewis R. Rambo		159
Ch. 8		Cognitive science and Christian theology by Charlene P. E. Burns		174
Ch. 9		Overcoming an impoverished ontology : Candrakirti and the mind-brain problem by Richard K. Payne		197
Ch. 10		Religion and brain-mind science : dreaming the future by Kelly Bulkeley		219
Ch. 11		Religion out of mind : the ideology of cognitive science and religion by Jeremy Carrette		242
Ch. 12		Brain science on ethics : the neurobiology of making choices by Walter J. Freeman		262

""Soul, Psyche, Brain" has successfully re-set the starting point for any serious interdisciplinary conversation on the topic of religion. By so doing, this book at once updates all parties, levels the intellectual playing field, and lays open new possibilities for collaborative research-both reflective and empirical-on the topic of religion across a broad range of disciplines."--Nina P. Azari, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Hilo "Bulkeley provides a unique and valuable resource reporting from the cutting edges of the encounter between neuroscience and religion. Fields as diverse as emotion and dream studies, complexity theory, spiritual development, Christian and non-Christian theology--and more--contribute to the ferment. Those working in any or all of these areas will find here resources to stretch their mind."--Carol Rausch Albright, author of "The Humanizing Brain: Where Religion and Neuroscience Meet"

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