Changing Behavior and Renewing the Brain: A Study of College Students*
The field of neuroscience and religion continues to explode as researchers seek to understand religious experiences in the brain. Studies in religious experience, called neurotheology, attempt to draw conclusions about the truth of these religious experiences from the study of biological brain event...
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Sage Publications
[2018]
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Christian education journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-20 |
RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality CF Christianity and Science ZD Psychology |
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Neuroscience
B Religious Experience B Spiritual Formation B Christian practices |
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