Is our brain hardwired to produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive God? A systematic review on the role of the brain in mediating religious experience

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 293-326

  Fingelkurts, Alexander A ^a   Fingelkurts, Andrew A ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain; Cognitive processes; Consciousness; EEG; God; Mind; Neuroscience; Religious experience; Soul; Spirit; Theology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; GENETIC CORRELATION; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATICS; RELIGION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEOLOGY; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; RELIGION; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 70449719080     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-009-0261-3     Document Type: Review

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