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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Publication
- United States
- City of Publication
- Naperville
- ISBN
- 1402207484
- EAN
- 9781402207488
- Weight
- 431.00 grams
- Date of Publication
- 2006-08-20
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1402207484
ISBN-13
9781402207488
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52857881
Product Key Features
Edition
5
Book Title
God Part of the Brain : a Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God
Number of Pages
274 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / General, General, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Psychology of Religion
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Religion, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-011690
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
200.19
Table Of Content
Prologue - Book I: - Theory's Evolution - Chapter 1:Throwing Rocks at God - Chapter 2:What Is Science? - Chapter 3:A Very Brief History of Time or Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Universe but Were Afraid to Ask - Chapter 4:Kant - Chapter 5:God as Word Chapter 6:Universal Behavioral Patterns - Book II: Intro to Biotheology - Chapter 7: The "Spiritual" Function, Jung, Universal Spiritual Beliefs and Practices, The Argument For a Spiritual Function - Chapter 8: The Rationale, The Origin of Mortal Consciousness, The Pain Function, The Anxiety Function, When Mortal Consciousness Meets the Anxiety Function, Advent of the Spiritual Function, The Origins of Immortal and God Consciousness Chapter 9: The "Spiritual" Experience, Origins of the Spiritual Experience, The Ego Function, The Transcendental Function - Chapter 10: Drug-Induced God - Chapter 11: The "Spiritual" Gene - Chapter 12: The Prayer Function - Chapter 13: Religious Conversion - Chapter 14: Why Are There Atheists? - Chapter 15: Near-Death Experiences - Chapter 16: Speaking in Tongues - Chapter 17: Why Is America So Religious?, A Bio-Historical Hypothesis - Chapter 18: The Guilt and Morality Functions - Chapter 19: The Logic of God:A New "Spiritual" Paradigm Chapter 20: What, If Anything, Is to Be Gained from a Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God? - Epilogue: Quest's End - Addendum: Experiments That Might Help Prove the Existence of a Spiritual Function - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index - About the Author
Synopsis
"A lively manifesto For the discipline's specific application to the matter at hand, I've seen nothing that matches the fury of The "God" Part of the Brain, which perhaps explains why it's earned something of a cult following." -Salon.com In this revised cult classic, the author offers a systematic, scientific argument that shows why belief in God is an inherent evolutionary mechanism that enables us to cope with our greatest, universal terror-death. Originally published in 1996, Matthew Alper's book is a personal journey that has been adopted by over 25 colleges and universities and has sparked commentary by world-renowned scientists such as E. O. Wilson and E. Fuller Torry. Here for the first time is a reasoned, compassionate, spiritual journey into the world of science, where God is not so much an illusion as a hallmark of the very way in which we think. "[E]xcellent reading." -Edward O. Wilson, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, "A lively manifesto...For the discipline's specific application to the matter at hand, I've seen nothing that matches the fury of The "God" Part of the Brain, which perhaps explains why it's earned something of a cult following." -Salon.com In this revised cult classic, the author offers a systematic, scientific argument that shows why belief in God is an inherent evolutionary mechanism that enables us to cope with our greatest, universal terror-death. Originally published in 1996, Matthew Alper's book is a personal journey that has been adopted by over 25 colleges and universities and has sparked commentary by world-renowned scientists such as E. O. Wilson and E. Fuller Torry. Here for the first time is a reasoned, compassionate, spiritual journey into the world of science, where God is not so much an illusion as a hallmark of the very way in which we think. " E]xcellent reading." -Edward O. Wilson, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, "A lively manifesto...For the discipline's specific application to the matter at hand, I've seen nothing that matches the fury of The "God" Part of the Brain, which perhaps explains why it's earned something of a cult following." -Salon.com In this revised cult classic, the author offers a systematic, scientific argument that shows why belief in God is an inherent evolutionary mechanism that enables us to cope with our greatest, universal terror-death. Originally published in 1996, Matthew Alper's book is a personal journey that has been adopted by over 25 colleges and universities and has sparked commentary by world-renowned scientists such as E. O. Wilson and E. Fuller Torry. Here for the first time is a reasoned, compassionate, spiritual journey into the world of science, where God is not so much an illusion as a hallmark of the very way in which we think. "[E]xcellent reading." -Edward O. Wilson, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
LC Classification Number
BL53.A47 2006
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