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This is a 3 page paper that provides a summary of scientific research into religion and the human brain. Recent understandings are summarized. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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in shaping political policy and the day to day lives of individuals throughout the world. Moreover, conflicts between religious groups continue to shape the nature of geopolitics, even in an
age where communications technologies are finally bridging the way to peace. The result of all this is that religion remains a topic very much worth exploring. Unfortunately, it can scarcely
been explored from a scientific standpoint with as much seriousness as it should be; this is perhaps because of the prevailing view of religion as somehow existing outside the auspices
of analysis and reason. Whatever the case, in the 21st century, we have a much more enlightened view about the capacity of science to make meaningful statements on sociological and
psychological issues, and religion should be no different. That being said, a report was recently published by Nencini and Grant which put attempted to analyze the "psychopharmacological underpinning of
religious experience" in such a way that had not been done previously (Nencini & Grant, 2010). Granted, many researchers in the past had attempted to understand what biological impact religious
states have upon the brain, but this particular study hoped to move towards compelling new interpretations that integrate new psychosocial understandings, such as the idea that "the role of personal
beliefs, expectations and experiences may interject bias into the interpretation of psychoactive drug action as a reflection of biologically based religious thought" (Nencini & Grant, 2010). Ultimately, the research study
can be seen as attempting to "consider anthropological and historical data to address alternative explanations to the fitness of religious thought" (Nencini & Grant, 2010). In doing so, they explored
the concept of a new "psychobiological model of the religious experience based on the concept of cognitive unbinding [which] seems to accommodate these data better than that of a specific
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