Neuromatic
Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling and critical examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth-century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth-century, to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion.What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concern that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2021-10-07
- Mått152 x 229 x 34 mm
- Vikt794 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieClass 200: New Studies in Religion
- Antal sidor392
- FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
- ISBN9780226797182
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