The "God module" and the complexifying brain

Zygon

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 735-744

  Albright, Carol Rausch ^a,b  

^a CTNS Science and Religion Course Program   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Complexity; Emergence; God module; James w. Fowler; Religious experience; Spiritual formation; Teleology; Teleonomy; William james

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744454860     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9744.00311     Document Type: Article

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