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The Neuroscience of Religious Experience: On John Hick Work about Religion and Neuroscience

Mahmoudi Hashemi, Navid | 2018

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 50477 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Hosseini, Hassan
  7. Abstract:
  8. The study of the religious experience is always one of the most important topics in researches related to the religion field. Religious and mystical experiences have always been one of the key religious concepts. The religious experience, like other human experiences, always comes with reactions in the human brain. Study of the religious experience from a neuroscience perspective can help us to answer questions and issues in the field of religious experience and cognitive credit of it. Assessment of what happens in the people’s brain during rituals like meditation or deep concentration provides a good window into understanding of what this means for people, being mystical or religious or doing religious concentration. A team of scientists believes that activities of the brain at the time of mystical revelation are very similar to the brain activity at the time of some of seizures and specific mental illnesses and this experiences can be decreased with drug. An important issue that arises is that if the results of studies on the brain come to the definitive conclusion that the experience of religious is nothing but brain processes, the question is what difference is there between these experiences with other human’s experiences. Moreover, the role of religious experience in religious belief is an important issue. If religious experience has the main role in religious beliefs and if scientific progresses in the field of neuroscience could question cognitive credit of religious experience, all religious beliefs could be under questioning
  9. Keywords:
  10. Religious Experience ; Neuroscience ; Knowledge ; Faith

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