TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodkey,Christopher D.
TI  - The Synaptic Gospel: Teaching the Brain to Worship
SN  - 9780761857877
AV  - BL53 .S384 2012 
U1  - 200.192 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - University Press of America
KW  - Empathy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Psychology and religion
KW  - Psychology, Religious
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Essays
KW  - RELIGION / Reference
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - The Synaptic Gospel; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements and an Opening Apology; Chapter One Introduction, Problems, and Methodologies; Chapter Two Worshiping Communities as Circles of Empathy; Chapter Three The Neuroscience of Emotion and Feeling; Chapter Four The Neurology of Worship; Chapter Five Worship as Religious Education; Chapter Six An Ecology of Liturgy: Habituating Liturgically with Youth; Selected Bibliography; Index
N2  - <Span><span><span>In this book, Christopher D. Rodkey asks how the brain worships and responds by engaging ideas from neurological science, philosophy, ritual theory, and religious education. </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Synaptic Gospel</span><span> will prove to be a useful theoretical tool for pastors, religious educators, youth ministers, church music professionals, and seminary students. </span></span></span>
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