The book "Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain" addresses Scientology, among other topics

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The book "Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain" addresses Scientology, among other topics.

The book has at least three chapters on Scientology.

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Amazon: Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain


Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain (Class 200: New Studies in Religion): 9780226799629: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com









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John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history.

In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion.

What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.

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F&M professor's new book is 'supposed to bother you'

MIKE ANDRELCZYK | Staff Writer 12 hrs ago


F&M professor's new book is 'supposed to bother you'


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Modern’s third book “Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain,” takes a trip through history to explore science and religion via the brain while giving equal time to neuroscientists, Scientologists, scholars, avant-garde artists and mystics.

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Fans of the Beat Generation will appreciate an appearance by one of Modern’s favorite writers, William Burroughs, who pops up to explore the power of language on the human brain, the occult and the early days of Scientology.

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[ISNOINews]

The book "Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain" addresses Scientology, among other topics.

The book has at least three chapters on Scientology.

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Amazon: Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain


Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain (Class 200: New Studies in Religion): 9780226799629: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com



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Description

Product Description

John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history.

In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion.

What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.

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F&M professor's new book is 'supposed to bother you'

MIKE ANDRELCZYK | Staff Writer 12 hrs ago


F&M professor's new book is 'supposed to bother you'


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Modern’s third book “Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain,” takes a trip through history to explore science and religion via the brain while giving equal time to neuroscientists, Scientologists, scholars, avant-garde artists and mystics.

[SNIP] .

Fans of the Beat Generation will appreciate an appearance by one of Modern’s favorite writers, William Burroughs, who pops up to explore the power of language on the human brain, the occult and the early days of Scientology.

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University of Chicago Press: Neuromatic Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain

John Lardas Modern

Neuromatic

John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history. In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the...

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John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history.

In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion.

What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.

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I did some reading of the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon. It would take a lot of study to see exactly what he's getting at but just as a guess I think he's making a comparison to the idea that all things "supernatural" are products of computations in the brain being investigated by science in the past and present as opposed to the supernatural existing as "itself".

It seems he's referencing the computer model of the brain/mind presented in DMSMH. Whether he references the "spiritual" aspects of scn later in the book can't be determined from the intro but it might be discussed in the exteriorization section.

Somewhere in one of the references it notes that the Mark V E-meter is discussed, probably as one of the many "scientific instruments" designed to measure and analyze the brain. Ex Scientologists have already investigated and reached their own conclusions on what was true or false and on what they might remain agnostic. Not much or nothing new.