Introduction
Introduction
The Body as Adaptive Agent
This chapter explores the leverage that the body exerts on humanity's propensity toward religion. Recent research in the emotions, neurobiology, sexuality, pain, and the chemical components of thought or feeling all shed light on the varieties of human spirituality. Studying religion “in the flesh” furnishes a new set of critical terms that bring a fully interdisciplinary perspective to bear on understanding the most elusive forms of embodied experience.
Keywords: body, cognitive science, critical terms, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, genetics, William James, E. O. Wilson
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