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Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
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Looks at scientific discoveries on the ways faith and spirituality affect one's physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Publishers Description
From the award-winning NPR religion correspondent comes a fascinating investigation of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled humanity for generations: Can science explain God?
Is spiritual experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that we can experience but not easily measure? Does your consciousness depend entirely on your brain, or does it extend beyond? In Fingerprints of God, award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty delves into the discoveries science is making about how faith and spirituality affect us physically and emotionally as it attempts to understand whether the ineffable place beyond this world can be rationally A-even scientificallyA-explained.
Hagerty interviews some of the worldA's top scientists to describe what their groundbreaking research reveals about our human spiritual experience. From analyses of the brain functions of Buddhist monks and Carmelite nuns, to the possibilities of healing the sick through directed prayer, to what near-death experiences illuminate about the afterlife, Hagerty reaches beyond what we think we know to understand what happens to us when we believe in a higher power.
Paralleling the discoveries of science is HagertyA's own account of her spiritual evolution. Raised a Christian Scientist, she was a scrupulous adherent until a small moment as an adult triggered a revaluation of her beliefs, which in turn led her to a new way of thinking about God and faith.
An insightful examination of what science is learning about how and why we believe, Fingerprints of God is also a moving story of one personA's search for a communion with a higher power and what she discovered on that journey. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 323
Dimensions: Length: 1.25" Width: 6.25" Height: 9.25"
Weight: 1.15 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Publisher Riverhead Hardcover
ISBN 1594488770
EAN 9781594488771
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 | An enjoyable read. Apr 28, 1999 |
| The story of a man from leaving school to middle age, set in an industrial town in the English midlands at the end of the 19th century. Sounds boring, but it isn't. Slow for the first few chapters, but then I found it unputdownable, you really get interested and want to know what happens. Lots of description of the environment of the time. No sex or violence, written no long after these actual times, so some bits of old fashioned prose. This aside, reminded me of Len Deighton's style of writing. I was a bit doubtful about buying this book, but I'm pleased I did. | | | Write your own review about Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
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