1st Edition
The Neural Basis of Religious Cognition
Preface
1. Emotional Intelligence and the Emotional Connection to God: Insights from Traumatic Brain Injury Research – Irene Cristofori Shira Cohen-Zimerman Alya Abderrahmane, Barry Gordon, Frank Krueger, Patrick McNamara, and Jordan Grafman
2. Religion and Spirituality in Parkinson’s Disease: A Qualitative Evaluation – Joel B. Goodin, Eric Hubbard, Kourtney Barrett, Rebecca E. Schwartz, Brian P. Levey, Nancy Spaulding
3. Selflessness as the Neuropsychological Foundation of Spiritual Transcendence – Brick Johnstone Daniel Cohen Andrew Cullen Dennison
4. The bodily instantiation of spiritual feelings: self-transcendence and the predictive processing of body signals – Cosimo Urgesi
5. Redemptive Turning Points, Spiritual Experience, and Decentering: Spiritual experiences and narrative identity construction in spiritual life history interviews – Patrick McNamara
6. The God receptor: naturalistic, psychotic and entheogenic neurocognition in the origins and phenomenology of spiritual and religious thought – Bernard Crespi, Nancy Yang, Sam Doesburg
7. Religious cognition in dreams: Attributing agency and meaning to(lucid) dreaming – Michelle Carr and Kennedy Robertson
8. REM sleep contributes to the neural basis of religious and spiritual experiences – Patrick McNamara
9. Embodied Representation of the Divine – Irene Cristofori, Sara Di Marco, Gabriella Cucuzza, Guillaume Lio, Salvatore Aglioti, and Angela Sirigu
Index
Biography
Jordan Grafman is Director of Brain Injury Research at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, IL, USA, and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Co‑PI Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Cognition (CNRC) Project (cognitiveneuroscienceofreligion.org).
Patrick McNamara is Professor of Psychology at National University, San Diego, California, USA, and Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. Co‑PI CNRC Project (cognitiveneuroscienceofreligion.org).
