Neuroscience and Religion
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2019) | Viewed by 13827
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Special Edition announcementThis announcement is to invite scholars to submit a paper to a Special Issue on “Neuroscience and Religion” for the international, online, open-source journal, Religions.
Neuroscience is an umbrella discipline that has spawned important new areas of scholarship, such as neuroeducation, neuropsychology, neurophilosophy—and now, neurotheology. Scholars in this new field recognize that neuroscience and theology are inextricably entangled. Yet, historically, these two worldviews have not explored the ways in which each worldview can inform and enrich the other. Neuroscience can show religion new ways to consider creeds, doctrines, and spiritual counseling in the light of objective evidence. Religion can show neuroscience areas of human need and concern that experimental research could and should be exploring. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for scholars to point the way to develop the field of neurotheology.
Given the digital nature of the journal, there is no restriction on the length of manuscripts, if the text is concise and comprehensive. Deadline for the manuscript is September 1, 2019. If you are interested, please submit a tentative title and a one-paragraph synopsis of what you plan to write to the Guest Editor. The Guest Editor's role is to write a short introduction for the Special Issue, nominate/invite prospective authors, and coordinate the manuscript processing.
W. R. Klemm, Guest Editor
Senior Professor of Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4458
Email: [email protected]
Author: Triune Brain, Triune Mind, Triune World View, Brighton Publishing, in press
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- neuroscience
- religion
- neurotheology
- spirituality
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