The Minds Of Gods

Author : Benjamin Grant Purzycki,Theiss Bendixen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350265721

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Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.

Author : Todd Tremlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199739011

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This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas on the basis of common structures and functions of human thought. The first general introduction to the new "cognitive science of religion," Minds and Gods presents the major themes, theories, and thinkers involved in this revolutionary new approach to human religiosity. Arguing that we cannot understand what we think until we first understand how we think, the book pursues the evolutionary forces that molded the modern human mind and continue to shape our ideas and actions today. Todd Tremlin details many of the adapted features of the brain - illustrating their operation with examples of everyday human behavior - and shows how mental endowments inherited from our ancestral past lead people to naturally entertain religious ideas. Tremlin provides a clear and comprehensive account of the developing field of the cognitive science of religion. This accessible and engaging volume is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the religious mind.

Author : Benjamin Grant Purzycki,Theiss Bendixen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350265714

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The Minds of Gods by Benjamin Grant Purzycki,Theiss Bendixen Pdf

Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.

Author : Todd Tremlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Evolutionary psychology
ISBN : 0199784728

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Minds and Gods by Todd Tremlin Pdf

This volume explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas on the basis of common structures and functions of human thought. It describes the evolutionary forces that molded the modern human mind. It details many adapted features of the brain, illustrating their operation with examples of everyday human behavior.

Author : Todd Tremlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199885466

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Minds and Gods by Todd Tremlin Pdf

Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them. But why? What makes belief in supernatural beings so widespread? And why are the gods of so many different people so similar in nature? This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas by looking through the lens of science at the common structures and functions of human thought. The first general introduction to the "cognitive science of religion," Minds and Gods presents the major themes, theories, and thinkers involved in this revolutionary new approach to human religiosity. Arguing that we cannot understand what we think until we first understand how we think, the book sets out to study the evolutionary forces that modeled the modern human mind and continue to shape our ideas and actions today. Todd Tremlin details many of the adapted features of the brain -- illustrating their operation with examples of everyday human behavior -- and shows how mental endowments inherited from our ancestral past lead many people to naturally entertain religious ideas. In short, belief in gods and the social formation of religion have their genesis in biology, in powerful cognitive processes that all humans share. In the course of illuminating the nature of religion, this book also sheds light on human nature: why we think we do the things we do and how the reasons for these things are so often hidden from view. This discussion ranges broadly across recent scientific findings in areas such as paleoanthropology, primate studies, evolutionary psychology, early brain development, and cultural transmission. While these subjects are complex, the story is told here in a conversational style that is engaging, jargon free, and accessible to all readers. With Minds and Gods , Tremlin offers a roadmap to a fascinating and growing field of study, one that is sure to generate interest and debate and provide readers with a better understanding of themselves and their beliefs.

Author : Malcolm Jeeves
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830895625

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Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods by Malcolm Jeeves Pdf

The field of psychology, and especially neuropsychology, can be daunting for Christian students trying to find their way. In the face of surprising new research and radical new theories, it is tempting to limit the integration of Christianity and psychology to relatively "safe" topics that one can easily differentiate from matters of faith. In Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods, the highly esteemed professor of psychology, Malcolm Jeeves, insists on addressing the difficult questions head-on. Do I have a soul? How free am I? What makes me uniquely human? Does my brain have a "God spot"? In this hypothetical correspondence with a student, Jeeves argues that we must avoid false choices in the relation between Scripture and science. Christians need not choose between a "God of the gaps" that competes with science, a "neurotheology" that bases our understanding of God on the latest scientific theory, or a scientific reductionism that claims to have explained God away as a mere function of the brain. Students encountering the brave new world of neuroscience need not view such research as a threat to the faith. With the wisdom of a seasoned scholar, Jeeves guides us down the road less-traveled—the way of integration.

Author : Patricia Easton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004305922

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The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux by Patricia Easton Pdf

The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux is a collection of 14 original essays in early modern philosophy by leading scholars in the field presented in honor of Thomas M. Lennon.

Author : Marie Jakober
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Science fiction, Canadian
ISBN : 077051328X

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The Mind Gods by Marie Jakober Pdf

Author : James Heisig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1092151850

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Of Gods and Minds by James Heisig Pdf

The five lectures that make up this book were delivered at Boston College in 2019 as the Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity. In them the author begins from the assumption that if the Christian God is to have global significance, it will not merely be a matter of Christianity accepting cultural and religious diversity and retreating from its mission of converting the entire world to its own way of thinking about God. The conversion to tolerance and hospitality towards other modes of belief and practice marks a watershed for Christianity, but only as a transition to straighten out its past in the face of a graver, commoner concern: the care of an earth abused by human civilization and devalued by organized religion. The author approaches this question from a broader consideration of the origins and functions of gods in minds and from there suggests grounding metaphors of the divine and its relationship to the natural world in a nothingness beyond being and becoming.

Author : Willie M. V. Stephens VeLeJouSte
Publisher : Author House
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781463421762

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The Right Mind by Willie M. V. Stephens VeLeJouSte Pdf

I have stressed in this book, from a spiritual and practical standpoint, how one should utilize the mind in ways for which God created it. Much of the content can be clarified or substantiated with Biblical quotes. Therefore, girth the loins of your mind. Be prayerful with hope as you reach for the Creator to benefit your mind. Allow Him to be your mind regulator. He understand the mechanisms of each of His creation. He is the perfect Physician and Teacher of the mind. It is said that the mind is Satans playground. Yes, it is if we allow him to enter and lodge there. We need to build a wall of faith equipped with a closed door around the mind to prevent his entry. In doing so, we can more readily keep our minds eye attentive, its ears opened, and have an alertness that protects us from evil strongholds, even those of our own flesh. Listen to your spirit, heart and conscience. Allow your mind to be still and listen to the positive voices that alert you to the things of God, being fortified with strength on high. This will help you to avoid confusion, being overwhelmed, being lost and will bring focus. Strong willpower is needed and will help pull you up towards God, and not down to where abnormalities plague the mind. I impart to you this advice, from a place of experience, from a place of concern and from a place of love, rooted in God.

Author : Mong H. Tan Ph. D.,Mong Tan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy and science
ISBN : 9780595379903

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Gods, Genes, Conscience by Mong H. Tan Ph. D.,Mong Tan Pdf

GODS, GENES, CONSCIENCE delves deeply, and portrays succinctly, the nature of our millennia-old "body-soul" and "spirit-mind" paradoxes, including those of our earliest shamanic quests, and material conquests, for survival: From our innate dreams, to religious self-contradictions-corruptions-conflicts-destructions; to arts-linguistics; to socioeconomics-geopolitics; to science-technology; and to reason-sensibility-sanity-faith. Specifically, this pop-science-first-book author, Mong H Tan, PhD, fathoms links among the chaos-orders of the evolutionary interstellar fabrics of Space, Time, Energy, and Matter; or the cosmic STEM matrixes-entities in the Universe that are all around us: From the creations of Life-Genes on Earth, to the ultimate, unique, unbound capacity-capability of our Mind-Gods within, in our brain or "memophorescenicity", a new unified quantum Mind theory pursued from an empiricist electrochemical particle-wave or Yin-Yang propensities of holism-cosmology; a critical reader's Theory of Everything, Biogenesis-Meanings and all. Epistemologically-"memophorescenically", in and by all accounts, intellectual and spiritual; Dr. Tan's critical inquiries, philosophical and psychological; his timely anatomy-synthesis of the STEM origins (particularly those of our genetics-mnemonics; our fast-advancing knowledge, consciousness, freewill, and conscience regarding Gods; and our ultimate wisdom of cherishing Life on Earth) have no doubt been sharpened, enriched, and transcended by the vast, fast advances in science-technology, multiculturalism, and pluralism of the East-West, today and beyond.

Author : Pleiades
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781446119921

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Into the Mind of God by Pleiades Pdf

Whether or not you believe in God, you cannot escape the fact that a belief in God is one of the principal factors determining the world in which we live. Even in modern western society, many of our laws, moralities and political policies are founded on religious belief. So much of our perceived morality stems from religious beliefs, that our day to day lives are moulded by them, beliefs which we as individuals may or may not share. There are so many different religions in existence today, that even if one seeks to know a one true God, we are faced with nothing but disagreement and confusion. Yet most religions hold at their core one fundamental idea, that a supreme being created the world in which we live, and watches over us like a divine, benevolent parent. But is such a belief supported by the evidence we have all around us at our disposal?

Author : Patrick Henry,Thomas F. Stransky
Publisher : Health Policy Advisory Center
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814612490

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God on Our Minds by Patrick Henry,Thomas F. Stransky Pdf

Author : Dennis Spain
Publisher : Carousel Publications
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781624071119

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The Mind of God by Dennis Spain Pdf

A graphic novel of an unprecedented 821 fine art images married to a compelling storyline. Like the swirling dance of the Dervish, the musical compositions of a young Muslim woman propel us from the war-torn landscape of the Middle East to the 13th Century tableaux of the encounter of Rumi with his teacher, Shams of Tabriz. The path of the heroine leads to her enlightenment and ours, as the war within us is faced and transformed.

Author : Marcel Kuijsten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0979074487

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Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind by Marcel Kuijsten Pdf

Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, this view inherited from Darwin's theory of evolution is supported by surprisingly little evidence. Offering an alternate view of the history of the human mind, Julian Jaynes's ideas challenge our preconceptions of not only the origin of the modern mind, but the origin of gods and religion, the nature of mental illness, and the future potential of consciousness. The tremendous explanatory power of Jaynes's ideas force us to reevaluate much of what we thought we knew about human history.Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind both explains Julian Jaynes's theory and explores a wide range of related topics such as the ancient Dark Age, the nature of dreams and the birth of Greek tragedy, poetic inspiration, the significance of hearing voices in both the ancient and modern world, the development of consciousness in children, vestiges of bicameralism and the transition to consciousness in early Tibet, the relationship of consciousness and metaphorical language, and how Jaynes's ideas compare to those of other thinkers.