THE BIBLE AND THE BRAIN

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

The study of religious thought, behavior, and practices in the Bible from the perspective of cognitive science, evolutionary science, and cognitive linguistics. Explores human memory, extreme religious experiences, ritualized behaviors, shamanism and religious therapy, religious community, universality of religion, and the emergence and transmission of religious ideas and practices among early Jews and Christians. 5000 word research paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 531 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 431 if student has credit for RELI 531 .