Has Science Displaced the Soul? : Debating Love and Happiness.

By:

Sharpe, Kevin

Contributor(s):

Bryant, Rebecca Bryant

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781461665397
1461665396
1322064970
9781322064970

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Has Science Displaced the Soul? : Debating Love and Happiness.DDC classification:

202.2

LOC classification:

BL65.H36 S53 2005

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Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter I: Happiness and Spiritual Traditions; Chapter 2: Happiness and Contemporary Science; Interlude I: An Unhappy Conflagration; Chapter 3: Love and Spiritual Traditions; Chapter 4: Love and Contemporary Science; Interlude 2: An Unloving Conflagration; Chapter 5: Evolutionary Psychology: A Science Background; Chapter 6: Evolutionary Psychology: A Spiritual Background; Interlude 3: Philip Hefner''s Conflagration Band-Aid; Interlude 4: Ted Peters'' Conflagration Band-Aid; Chapter 7: Divine Projections; Chapter 8: Scientific Hypotheses.

Interlude 5: Happiness, Love, and the DivineNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors.

Summary: Can science explain powerful human emotions such as love and happiness? Or, are these emotions something more than the action of biochemicals and electrical impulses? Science is constantly uncovering the mysteries of our nature, but we are uneasy about submitting our most intimate feelings to its scrutiny. Unflinching in facing these issues, Kevin Sharpe provides a clear and current summary of the discoveries of science and what our spiritual lives still have to offer in the ongoing effort to understand our deepest urges. In the 21st century, is it necessary to discard our traditional beliefs.

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Interlude 5: Happiness, Love, and the DivineNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors.

Can science explain powerful human emotions such as love and happiness? Or, are these emotions something more than the action of biochemicals and electrical impulses? Science is constantly uncovering the mysteries of our nature, but we are uneasy about submitting our most intimate feelings to its scrutiny. Unflinching in facing these issues, Kevin Sharpe provides a clear and current summary of the discoveries of science and what our spiritual lives still have to offer in the ongoing effort to understand our deepest urges. In the 21st century, is it necessary to discard our traditional beliefs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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