Religion and Psychiatry in the Age of Neuroscience.
Publication/Presentation Date
7-1-2020
Abstract
In recent decades, an evolving conversation among religion, psychiatry, and neuroscience has been taking place, transforming how we conceptualize religion and how that conceptualization affects its relation to psychiatry. In this article, we review several dimensions of the dialogue, beginning with its history and the phenomenology of religious experience. We then turn to neuroscientific studies to see how they explain religious experience, and we follow that with two related areas: the benefits of religious beliefs and practices, and the evolutionary foundation of those benefits. A final section addresses neuroscientific and evolutionary accounts of the transcendent, that is, what these fields make of the claim that religious experience connects to a transcendent reality. We conclude with a brief summary, along with the unresolved questions we have encountered.
Volume
208
Issue
7
First Page
517
Last Page
523
ISSN
1539-736X
Published In/Presented At
Phillips, J., El-Gabalawi, F., Fallon, B. A., Majeed, S., Merlino, J. P., Nields, J. A., Saunders, D., & Norko, M. A. (2020). Religion and Psychiatry in the Age of Neuroscience. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 208(7), 517–523. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001149
Disciplines
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Health and Medical Administration | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
PubMedID
32032179
Department(s)
Administration and Leadership
Document Type
Article