REL 3310 - Religion, Cognitive Sci, and Neuroscience

Credits: 4
An examination of recent work in the cognitive scientific and neurophysiological study of religion. This course will acquaint students with the growing body of theoretical and empirical work in an emerging field within religious studies.
One tendency of this work has been to suggest that religion is somehow built in to the structure of the human brain and so, despite predictions of secularization, human beings will remain religious. Students will be expected to assess this and other claims.