Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Religious ExperienceJensine Andresen, Robert K. C. Forman Imprint Academic, 2000 - 287 pages This book throws down a challenge to religious studies, offering a multidisciplinary approach - including developmental psychology, neuropsychology, philosophy of mind, and anthropology. |
Contents
About Authors | 2 |
A Functional Approach to Mysticism Arthur Deikman | 75 |
The Epistemology and Technologies | 93 |
Critical Reflections on Christic Visions Phillip H Wiebe | 119 |
Further Considerations | 145 |
A Critical Appreciation | 177 |
Consciousness Evolves When Self Dissolves James H Austin | 209 |
On the Relationship Between Cognitive Models | 231 |
The Neuropsychology | 251 |
The Rhetoric of Experience and the Study of Religion Robert H Sharf | 267 |
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