New Sciences of Religion Exploring Spirituality from the Outside in and Bottom Up

Name: New Sciences of Religion Exploring Spirituality from the Outside in and Bottom Up
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ISBN: 9780230108776

ISBN-10: 0230108776

ISBN-13: 9780230108776

Edition: 2010

Authors: William Grassie

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The New Sciences of Religionis a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena. William Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the "outside in" and the "bottom up" without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions. Using insights from economics, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, and medicine, Grassie develops a complex and multifaceted understanding of religion as potentially functional and dysfunctional in specific contexts, differentially so for individuals and groups.The New Sciences of Religionthen asks what in religion and spirituality might also be true and profound when our…

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List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Religion From the Outside In


The Challenge of Comparative Religion


The Old Sciences of Religion


The Economics of Religion


The Evolution of Religion


The Neurosciences of Religion


The Medicine of Religion



Religion From the Bottom Up


The Narratives of Religion


The New Religion of Science


God-by-Whatever-Name


Reiterations and Reflections