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Academia Mexicana de Neurología, A.C.

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Rev Mex Neuroci 2014; 15 (5)

Is it possible the transdisciplinarity among neurosciences and religions?

Álvarez-Díaz JA

Language: Spanish
References: 33
Page: 291-296
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ABSTRACT

The development of neuroscience, particularly with the use of functional magnetic resonance image has proliferated neuroscientific research on human activities without clinical purposes. New fields have emerged between social science and neuroscience (as neuroeconomics) and between neuroscience and the humanities (as neurophilosophy). One of these new fields has attempted to analyze human religiosity, being called by some as neurotheology. To approximate what is (or should be) neurotheology it is defined disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity , interdisciplinarity , and transdisciplinarity , suggesting that religiosity is complex and deserves this latter approach. It is provided a wide definition of what is the religious experience; then, there are listed some difficulties for transdisciplinary approach. An open question is if religious experience is being medicalized. It is always better to know more about how the human brain works. However, much remains to develop an interdisciplinary perspective that allows for neuroscientific study of religious experience


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