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Religion Volume 41, 2011 - Issue 1
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Review symposium on Patrick McNamara, The Neuroscience of Religious Experience (2009)

Dreaming and god concepts

Kelly Bulkeley Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 75-78 | Published online: 11 Apr 2011
 
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Abstract

McNamara's book draws on dream research to explain the generation of god concepts as ‘minimally counter-intuitive’ agents. This review examines the actual evidence McNamara presents to support that claim, and finds it lacking in several ways. Although his book does not provide a convincing argument that dreams are a source of god concepts, McNamara's insightful idea opens up new possibilities for bridging dream research and the cognitive science of religion.

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