Kelly Bulkeley

Kelly Bulkeley is a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the author of The Wondering Brain: Thinking About Religion With and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscience (Routledge, 2005), the forthcoming Dreaming in the World’s Religions: A Comparative History (NYU Press, July 2008), and American Dreamers: What Dreams Tell Us about the Political Psychology of Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else (Beacon, July 2008).

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Friday, May 30th, 2008

The cognitive revolution and the decline of monotheism

To appreciate the cultural impact of the “cognitive revolution” discussed by David Brooks in his New York Times op-ed column “The Neural Buddhists” (May 13, 2008), we need to be clear about what has and has not been revolutionized by neuroscience. Brooks gets the research essentially right, but he overlooks some key issues raised by “neural Buddhism” that make me question his view of its future effects on religion and culture. [...]

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