Man is not only an animal that eats, dresses, and lives, but also with religious knowledge. Only man, unlike animals, has discovered a superhuman power to protect himself from threatening evil obtain what he desires. How the ancient people came think about religion unending debate among anthropologists realists. He mentions scholars like "Periluite" others "Thurkiyam" fear appeared in reason fo...

Recent functional neuroimaging data, acquired in studies of religious experience, have been used to explain and justify religion and its origins. In this paper, we critique the move from describing brain activity associated with self-reported religious states, to explaining why there is religion at all. Toward that end, first we review recent neuroimaging findings on religious experience, and s...

Koen Put is with the Department of Kinesiology, Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium. Marcus V.C. Baldo is with the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil. André M. Cravo is with the Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, Federal University of ABC, Br...

Sergio Dain,* Marcus Khuri, Gilbert Weinstein, and Sumio Yamada Facultad de Matemática, Astronomı́a y Fı́sica, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Instituto de Fı́sica Enrique Gaviola, IFEG, CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA Department of Physics; Department of Computer Science and Mathemat...

The handiwork and the glory of God displayed by the heavens and the firmament have been called General Divine Revelation. In this category one may also include the constitution of human personality, for man himself is a creation of God and in some sense bears the marks of his Creator. This “light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and pow...

In this paper, we propose to analyze the phenomenon of Christian prayer by way of combining two different analytical frameworks. We start by applying Schutz's theories of "intersubjectivity," "inner time," "politheticality," and "multiple realities," and then proceed by drawing on the ideas and insights of linguistic philosophers, notably, Wittgenstein's "language-game," Austin's "speech act," ...