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Religion has always been a major study in psychology, but recent events, including terrorism, have sharpened attention on the relationship between personality and religion. This collection concentrates on reproducible results and logic, rather than unproved theories and instant reactions. Contributors of these fifteen essays review the accumulated research and theories on the major aspects of personality and social psychology as applied to religion....
27) Why we believe what we believe: uncovering our biological need for meaning, spirituality, and truth
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Free Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Do you remember events differently from how they really happened? Where do your superstitions come from? How do morals evolve? Why are some people religious and others nonreligious? Everyone has thoughts and questions like these, and now psychologists Newberg and Waldman show, for the first time, how our complex views emerge from the neural activities of the brain. Bridging science, psychology, and religion, they demonstrate, in simple terminology,...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them - and to anyone, regardless of their faith (or lack thereof)"--
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English
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In a series of twenty lectures, the philosopher explores conversion, mysticism, repentence, prayer, saintliness, hopes of reward, and fears of punishment with sympathy and boldness. Religious phenomena are documented by various case histories. Both the believer and the non-believer will find a great deal of food for thought.