Mind, Religion & Ethics in Dialogue
A Winner of the Templeton Research Lectures on the Constructive
Engagement Between Science and Religion (2005-2008)
Suggested Reading Materials
The University of Pennsylvania Survey of Spiritual Experiences
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For Those Interested in Other Related Sites on the Penn Campus:
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Neuroethics Website
The Positive Psychology Website
The following books and/or selections from these books include:
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Ashbrook J. The Humanizing Brain: Where Religion and Neuroscience
Meet. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1996.
Austin JH. Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
Brown WS, Murphy N, Malony HN. Whatever Happened to the Soul? Augsburg Fortress Press, 1998.
Cardena E, Lynn SJ, Krippner S. Varieties of Anomalous Experience. American Psychological Association, 2000.
Changeux JP, Ricoeur P, DeBevoise MB. What Makes Us Think?: A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Gazzaniga M. The New Cognitive Neurosciences. MIT Press, 2000.
Hamer D. The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes. Doubleday, 2004.
Hufford, D.J., The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
Hufford, D.J., Commentary: Mystical Experience in the Modern World. In The World was Flooded with Light: A Mystical Experience Remembered, pp. 87-183. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.
Devon E. Hinton, David J. Hufford, & Laurence J. Kirmayer. Culture and Sleep Paralysis. Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1:5-10.
James W. Varieties of Religious Experience. Routledge Press, 2000
Koenig HG (editor). Handbook of religion and mental health. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998.
Newberg AB, d'Aquili. Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. Ballantine, 2001.
Nussbaum M. "Mill Between Aristotle and Bentham," Daedalus Spring 2004: 60-68.
Nussbaum M. Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, Harvard University Press, 1997.
Wallace BA. The Taboo of Subjectivity. Oxford, 2000.
Articles available in PDF format:
| d'Aquili, E., and Newberg, A.B., The Neuropsychology
of Aesthetic, Spiritual and Mystical StatesZygon, vol. 35, no. 1
(March 2000) pp.39-51. |
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| Farah, M.J., Neuroethics: the practical and the
philosophicalTrends in Cognotive Sciences, vol. 9, no. 1, (January
2005) pp. 34-40. |
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| Farah, M.J., Illes, J., Cook-Deegan, R., Gardner, H., Kandel,
E., King, P., Parens, E., Sahakian, B., and Wolpe, P.R.,Neurocognitive
enhancement: what can we do and what should we do?Nature Reviews
- Neuroscience, vol. 5, (May 2004) pp.421-425. |
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| Hufford, D.J., Sleep Paralysis as
Spiritual Experience. Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1:11-45.
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| Newberg, A.B., d'Aquili, E., Newberg, S.K., and deMarici,
V.The Neuropsychological Correlates of Forgiveness,Forgiveness:
Theory, Research and Practice, Edited by M.E. McCullogh, K.I. Pargament,
C.E. Thoresen, Guilford Publications, Inc., NY, NY., 2000., Reprinted
in Basic Psychological Research, pp. 91-110 |
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| Newberg, A.B., Iverson, J.,The neural basis of the
complex mental task of meditation: neurotransmitter and neurochemical
considerationsMedical Hypotheses (2003) 61(2), pp. 282-291.
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| Newberg, A.B., Lee, B.Y.,The Neuroscientific Study
of Religious and Spiritual Phenomena: or Why God Doesn't Use Biostatistics,Zygon,
vol. 40, no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 469-489. |
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