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- Title
Challenges Facing the Neurological Study of Religious Behavior, Belief, and Experience.
- Authors
Wildman, Wesley J.; McNamara, Patrick
- Abstract
The neurological study of religious behavior, belief, and experience faces many challenges related to research conception, experimental design, and interpretation of results. Some of these problems are common to other types of neurological study of behavioral and cognitive phenomena. Others are distinctive to the specifically religious domain of behavior, belief, and experience. This paper discusses eight of these problems and three key strategic principles for mitigating them. It then proposes an eight-step framework for research into the neurology of religious behavior, belief, and experience that implements the three strategic principles and addresses all eight of the problems.
- Subjects
CLINICAL neuropsychology; RELIGIOUS psychology; PSYCHOLOGY &; religion; FAITH development; PSYCHIATRY &; religion; RELIGION &; science; EVOLUTIONARY theories &; religion
- Publication
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 3, p212
- ISSN
0943-3058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/157006808X317455