Religion and Psychiatry in the Age of Neuroscience
| Autor: | Salman Majeed, David C. Saunders, Jenifer A. Nields, Michael A. Norko, James Phillips, Fayez El-Gabalawi, Joseph P. Merlino, Brian A. Fallon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Psychiatry
Religion and Psychology medicine.medical_specialty Conceptualization Mental Disorders media_common.quotation_subject Neurosciences Psychotherapy Psychiatry and Mental health Religious experience medicine Humans Spirituality Conversation Sociology Phenomenology (psychology) Neuroscience media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 208:517-523 |
| ISSN: | 1539-736X 0022-3018 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001149 |
| Popis: | In recent decades, an evolving conversation among religion, psychiatry, and neuroscience has been taking place, transforming how we conceptualize religion and how that conceptualization affects its relation to psychiatry. In this article, we review several dimensions of the dialogue, beginning with its history and the phenomenology of religious experience. We then turn to neuroscientific studies to see how they explain religious experience, and we follow that with two related areas: the benefits of religious beliefs and practices, and the evolutionary foundation of those benefits. A final section addresses neuroscientific and evolutionary accounts of the transcendent, that is, what these fields make of the claim that religious experience connects to a transcendent reality. We conclude with a brief summary, along with the unresolved questions we have encountered. |
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