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Author : Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337129951
Author : Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NYPL:33433068241664
Author : Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1330482433
Excerpt from The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind A person of ordinary intelligence would probably resent the imputation that he does not know the meaning of the term Religion; but, should he seriously ask himself the question placed at the head this chapter, he would be surprised to find how much difficulty an act and adequate answer involves. He will first think of the various systems and organisations really or nominally of a religious character, and perhaps content himself with an enumeration or an ample. If more closely pressed he may find himself greatly at a loss, and indeed may be forced to take refuge in that well-known characterisation of the Holy Ghost by an English prelate as 'a sort a something.' For, while there will be no lack of declarations, heterogeneous and contradictory as they may be, as to what a religious man or woman should believe or do, he will find much less instruction as to what religion essentially is, and what he does find will not be of a satisfactory character, since it almost invariably is en in the interest of some system or some organised body. Moreover, in the efforts which his own intelligence may make, a person will be much perplexed from a proneness of his own mind to confuse products of religion, its incidents and accidents, with its ultimate languishing characteristics. When, for instance, we speak of the christian religion we have in mind a social organisation, comprising a community of organised lies united by certain enunciated principles and by certain declared aims. But this society is not the christian religion, but rather a development of it. The religion makes the society. If there were religion there would be no church. Hence we cannot say that christian church is the christian religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015070188837
Author : Daniel Brinton
Publisher : Litres
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040620760
"The Religious Sentiment" by Daniel G. Brinton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Daniel Garrison Brinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Religion
ISBN : NYPL:33433068189897
Author : Daniel Garrison Brinton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465546852
Author : Daniel Garrison BRINTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023496622
Author : Todd Tremlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199739011
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 : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781429972611
The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop of belief confirmation. Shermer outlines the numerous cognitive tools our brains engage to reinforce our beliefs as truths. Interlaced with his theory of belief, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. Ultimately, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not a belief matches reality.
Author : Kenneth M. Heilman,Russell S. Donda
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317812906
About 90% of people have faith in a supreme being, but our yearning for the divine, and whatever it promises, involves a large divergence in mental states and behaviors. Some adhere to doctrine, supplication, and fastidious religious practices; others have a strong sense they are part of something greater and more universal. However, all religious and spiritual paths are mediated by complex brain networks. When different areas of the brain are stimulated, a person can have a variety of experiences, but there is no specific ‘God spot’ where stimulation enhances religiosity or spirituality. Functional brain imaging shows that there are specific areas of the brain that ‘light up’ when subjects perform certain religious activities, but imaging only provides anatomic correlations, not functional explanations. The Believer's Brain takes a step beyond these singular methodologies, providing converging evidence from a variety study methods of how humans’ brain networks mediate different aspects of religious and spiritual beliefs, feelings, actions, and experiences. Although the book reveals how our brain is the home to the religious and spiritual mind, understanding this gift will not diminish our spirituality or our love or our belief in a supreme being, but will increase appreciation of the apparatus that mediates these mental states.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433081643136
Author : Agustin Fuentes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300249255
A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary scientists answer with proposals for why ritual, religion, and faith make sense as adaptations to past challenges or as by-products of our hyper-complex cognitive capacities. But what if the focus on religion is too narrow? Renowned anthropologist Agustín Fuentes argues that the capacity to be religious is actually a small part of a larger and deeper human capacity to believe. Why believe in religion, economies, love? A fascinating intervention into some of the most common misconceptions about human nature, this book employs evolutionary, neurobiological, and anthropological evidence to argue that belief—the ability to commit passionately and wholeheartedly to an idea—is central to the human way of being in the world.
Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190469696
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Author : Christopher G. Smith
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781800461154
This is a book for our time. The advent of Covid-19 is turning our world upside down and highlighting the paradoxical nature of human behaviour. A minority of thoughtless people are indulging in selfish activities that threaten our safety, whilst NHS workers heroically risk their own lives to save others. In South Africa members of rival drug gangs, who would normally kill each other without a second thought, have called a truce and are now working together in order to ensure that food is distributed to needy families. Human nature is paradoxical because it is capable of perceiving both the finite (secular) and infinite (spiritual) which are juxtaposed within the context of reality. What makes this book different is that spirituality is not considered to be other-worldly. What we refer to as the secular and the spiritual are viewed as ‘two sides of a coin’ that co-exist as part of one reality, within the context of temporality. Both contribute to what we perceive to be a sense of ‘self’. They are different perceptions of consciousness that influence human behaviour through conscious and subconscious processes. The aim of this book is to consider the factors that contribute to the paradoxical nature of being human and to explore the issues that cloud our perceptions and cause confusion. It proffers a vision of how a religious faith can be made intelligible at a time when the majority of people, living in our postmodern age, consider it to be irrelevant.
