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Why do we care whether or not God exists? And why do so many people believe? A new generation of neuroscientists is addressing those questions directly, with the ambitious goal of measuring what happens to the human brain during spiritual experiences. Via 11th Dimension Team 
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A pioneer of neurotheology, Dr. Andrew Newberg uses fMRI and other neuroscientific tools to study religious experiences in the brain. NEUROSCIENCE & RELIGION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=neuroscience%2C+religion
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Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann has spent ten years studying how evangelical Christians train themselves to hear the voice of God. Articles about ANTHROPOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=anthropology
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Religion: not just for believers anymore. Philosopher and author Alain de Botton says non-believers can learn a lot from religion - without believing in God. He sits down with Steve Paikin.
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A few years ago, Sir David Attenborough seemed to think so: Attenborough recently changed his tune: I don't think an understanding and an acceptance of the 4 billion-year-long history of life is any way inconsistent with a belief in a supreme being. And I am not so confident as to say that I am an atheist.
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Voodoo was born in the West African nation of Benin. And here it is an official religion.
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Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.
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