Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA24215 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:35:25 GMT From: <dgatherer@talk21.com> X-Mailer: talk21 v1.23 - http://talk21.btopenworld.com To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk X-Talk21Ref: none Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:26:40 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: Has anybody read this book? Message-Id: <20020116083055.TLTD27865.wmpmta02-app.mail-store.com@wmpmtavirtual> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>I just came across this title: Why God Won't Go Away by >Andrew
>Neuberg, Eugene D'Aquili and Vince Rause. The blurb says >that they
>say the religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the >brain. Has
>anyone read this? Is it any good?
I haven't seen the book in the shops yet, but I did read a longish article published a couple of years ago:
D'Aquili EG and Newberg AB (1998) The neuropsychological basis of religions, or why God won't go away. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 33, 187-202. There's a guy called Ramachandran in San Diego who says much the same thing in one episode of his TV series:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mind/
This sort of thing has been on the go for decades in a rather disparate way, but these authors are the first to sort of pull together all the information from various sources - comparative religion, neurology, sociology etc. Based on their Zygon article, I'd certainly want to read the book.
Derek
www.geocities.com/derek_gatherer/index.htm
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