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Has Science Displaced the Soul? [electronic resource] : Debating Love and Happiness.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (201 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781461665397 (electronic bk.)
  • 1461665396 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Has Science Displaced the Soul? : Debating Love and HappinessDDC classification:
  • 202.2
LOC classification:
  • BL65.H36 S53 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter I: Happiness and Spiritual Traditions; Chapter 2: Happiness and Contemporary Science; Interlude I: An Unhappy Conflagration; Chapter 3: Love and Spiritual Traditions; Chapter 4: Love and Contemporary Science; Interlude 2: An Unloving Conflagration; Chapter 5: Evolutionary Psychology: A Science Background; Chapter 6: Evolutionary Psychology: A Spiritual Background; Interlude 3: Philip Hefner''s Conflagration Band-Aid; Interlude 4: Ted Peters'' Conflagration Band-Aid; Chapter 7: Divine Projections; Chapter 8: Scientific Hypotheses
Interlude 5: Happiness, Love, and the DivineNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors
Summary: Can science explain powerful human emotions such as love and happiness? Or, are these emotions something more than the action of biochemicals and electrical impulses? Science is constantly uncovering the mysteries of our nature, but we are uneasy about submitting our most intimate feelings to its scrutiny. Unflinching in facing these issues, Kevin Sharpe provides a clear and current summary of the discoveries of science and what our spiritual lives still have to offer in the ongoing effort to understand our deepest urges. In the 21st century, is it necessary to discard our traditional beliefs.
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter I: Happiness and Spiritual Traditions; Chapter 2: Happiness and Contemporary Science; Interlude I: An Unhappy Conflagration; Chapter 3: Love and Spiritual Traditions; Chapter 4: Love and Contemporary Science; Interlude 2: An Unloving Conflagration; Chapter 5: Evolutionary Psychology: A Science Background; Chapter 6: Evolutionary Psychology: A Spiritual Background; Interlude 3: Philip Hefner''s Conflagration Band-Aid; Interlude 4: Ted Peters'' Conflagration Band-Aid; Chapter 7: Divine Projections; Chapter 8: Scientific Hypotheses

Interlude 5: Happiness, Love, and the DivineNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors

Can science explain powerful human emotions such as love and happiness? Or, are these emotions something more than the action of biochemicals and electrical impulses? Science is constantly uncovering the mysteries of our nature, but we are uneasy about submitting our most intimate feelings to its scrutiny. Unflinching in facing these issues, Kevin Sharpe provides a clear and current summary of the discoveries of science and what our spiritual lives still have to offer in the ongoing effort to understand our deepest urges. In the 21st century, is it necessary to discard our traditional beliefs.

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