Science and a Flaming Sword: The Neurospirituality of Religious Temperament
Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:30pm to 7pm
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Boston College - Brighton Campus, 117 Lake Street, Boston, MA 02135, USA
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Recent advances in human brain imaging are enabling first-of-its-kind insight into complex human behaviors, including religious temperament. Join us as Dr. Michael Ferguson, Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Neurospirituality Research Director at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, describes his cutting-edge work to identify and characterize brain circuits that are causally involved in varieties of religious orientations, including dogmatic and mystical expressions of spirituality and religiosity.