Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution)
Description:
A standout resource on the emerging field of applying neuropsychology and the latest findings in sleep and dream research to religious experience, this book investigates the proven biological links between REM dreams and religious ideas, covering past and current schools of thought in both the science of dreams and the science of religion.
• Provides detailed, mechanistic, and science-based explanations of how god beliefs emerge in dreams
• Shows how the dynamics of REM sleep neurochemical processes produce cognitive states that promote beliefs in supernatural beings
• Presents numerous examples of how the birth of new religious movements was due to dreams of the founders
• Reviews the extensive literature on the anthropology of dreams, demonstrating their centrality to primal tribal cultures and religion
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9781440847165
Related Books
- 1
- 2
- The Neuroscience of Religious ExperienceMcNamara, PatrickEdition:ReprintISBN-13:9781107428010
- The Neuroscience of Religious ExperienceMcNamara, PatrickEdition:1ISBN-13:9780521889582
- The Neuroscience of Religious ExperienceMcNamara, PatrickEdition:ReprintISBN-13:9781107428010
- The Neuroscience of Religious ExperienceMcNamara, PatrickEdition:1ISBN-13:9780521889582
Frequently Asked Questions about Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution)
The price for the book starts from $76.00 on Amazon and is available from 9 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution) book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution) book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Dreams and Visions: How Religious Ideas Emerge in Sleep and Dreams (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution) book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 5,469,677 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
Not enough insights yet.