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God's Brain (Hardcover)
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God's Brain (Hardcover)
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Price R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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In the fractious debate on the existence of God and the nature of
religion, two distinguished authors radically alter the discussion.
Taking a perspective rooted in evolutionary biology with a focus on
brain science, the authors elucidate the perennial questions about
religion: What is its purpose? How did it arise? What is its
source? Why does every known culture have some form of it? Their
answer is deceptively simple, yet at the same time highly complex:
The brain creates religion and its varied concepts of God, and then
in turn feeds on its creation to satisfy innate neurological and
associated social needs.
Brain science reveals that humans and other primates alike are
afflicted by unavoidable sources of stress that the authors
describe as "brainpain." To cope with this affliction people seek
to "brainsoothe." We humans use religion and its social structures
to induce brainsoothing as a relief for innate anxiety. How we do
this is the subject of this groundbreaking book.
In a concise, lively, accessible, and witty style, the authors
combine zoom-lens vignettes of religious practices with discussions
of the latest research on religion's neurological effects on the
brain. Among other topics, they consider religion's role in
providing positive socialization, its seeming obsession with
regulating sex, creating an afterlife, how religion's rules of
behavior influence the law, the common biological scaffolding
between nonhuman primates and humans and how this affects religion,
a detailed look at brain chemistry and how it changes as a result
of stress, and evidence that the palliative effects of religion on
brain chemistry is not matched by nonreligious remedies.
Concluding with a checklist offering readers a means to compute
their own "brainsoothe score," this fascinating book provides key
insights into the complexities of our brain and the role of
religion, perhaps its most remarkable creation.
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