Status
Available
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Publication
Prometheus (2010), Hardcover, 256 pages
Description
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, 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.
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Physical description
256 p.; 9.4 inches
ISBN
1616141646 / 9781616141646
Local notes
Gods Brein