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Spirituality in the Flesh - Bodily Sources of Religious Experiences (Hardcover)
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Spirituality in the Flesh - Bodily Sources of Religious Experiences (Hardcover)
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It is now generally accepted that the nature of human thought has
much to do with the structure and function of the human body. In
Spirituality in the Flesh, Robert C. Fuller investigates how our
sensory organs, emotional programs, sexual sensibilities, and
neural structures shape religious phenomena. Why is it that some
religious traditions assign spiritual currency to pain? How do
neurochemically-driven emotions such as fear shape our religious
actions? What is the relationship between chemically altered states
of consciousness and religious innovation? The body has recently
become a subject of investigation among scholars of religion. Many
such studies focus on the concept of the body as a cultural
construct. Whereas these treatments helpfully demonstrate how
cultures construct ideas about the body, Fuller asks how the body
itself influences religious concepts. Seeking to establish a middle
ground between purely materialistic or humanistic arguments, he
skillfully pairs scientific findings with religious truths. Both
perspectives could learn from the other: Fuller takes scientific
interpreters to task for failing to understand the inherently
cultural aspects of embodied experience even as he chides most
religion scholars for ignoring new knowledge about the biological
substrates of human behavior. Comfortable with the language of
scientific analysis and sympathetic to the inherently subjective
aspects of religious events, Fuller introduces the biological study
of religion by joining our unprecedented understanding of bodily
states with an experts knowledge of religious phenomena. Culling
insights from scientific observations, historical allusions, and
literary references, Spirituality in the Flesh provides fresh
understandings that promise to enrich our appreciation of the
embodied religious experience.
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