Abstract:The present paper tackles one of the most significant expressions of the old conflict between science and religion, highlighted by the investigation at the crossroads of psychology, religion and spirituality, and neuroscience. Neurotheology is the study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena. Partisans of this field claim that there is a neurological and evolutionary basis for subjective experiences traditionally categorized as … Show more
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