{"title":"Finding consonance","authors":"J. Balch, J. Grafman, P. McNamara","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125425925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”","authors":"D. Yaden, M. van Elk","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128403403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members","authors":"A. Village, Leslie J. Francis","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2160800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2160800","url":null,"abstract":"The Francis Psychological Type Scales were developed during the early 2000s to operationalize the four components of psychological type theory within survey-style research, proposing measures of introversion and extraversion, sensing and intuition, feeling and thinking, judging and perceiving. Drawing on four datasets of clergy and churchgoers ( N = 291, 879, 1,296, 1,525), the present study tests the factor structure of these established measures alongside the fi fth construct of emotional temperament, distinguishing between calm emotional temperament and volatile emotional temperament. The data both support the satisfactory performance of the proposed Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS) and suggest a research program for the further development and re fi nement of this measure.","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124439105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?","authors":"T. Deacon","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128249507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science","authors":"D. Wilson","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143399","url":null,"abstract":"Pierre Teilhard Chardin (1881-1955) developed an evolutionary worldview that was both spiritual and consistent with the scientific knowledge of his day. He has been largely forgotten by modern evolutionary scientists but remains widely read by those who are inspired by his vision of conscious evolution leading to a planetary superorganism. This working paper examines the major tenets of Teilhard’s vision from a modern evolutionary perspective in an effort to integrate “hard” evolutionary science with conscious efforts to manage cultural change. *** Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a Jesuit Priest and paleontologist who was part of the team that unearthed the skull that became known as Peking Man (now classified as Homo erectus) in 19291. The Catholic Church has long acted as a patron of science in addition to a censor when its dogma became threatened. Hence, it was not unusual for a priest to also be a scientist and Teilhard was highly respected by his scientific peers. His writing indeed strayed into dangerous territory as far as the Church was concerned. Teilhard was blocked from taking prestigious academic positions that were offered and many of his publications were suppressed. Le phénomène humain, which was written in the 1930’s, was not published until after his death. The English translation of this book, titled The Phenomenon of Man2, includes an admiring foreword by Julian Huxley, one of the architects of the Modern Synthesis. Teilhard has a curious status in modern times. Among academic evolutionary scientists, he has been almost totally forgotten. Yet, as the Google NGram (which charts word frequencies from Google’s vast electronic library of books) in Figure 1 shows, Teilhard remains much better known among the general public than the architects of the Modern Synthesis. The purpose of this article is to examine the work of Teilhard in the light of modern evolutionary science. I will show that he anticipated developments which did not take place until the closing decades of the 20th century and in many respects are still in progress. This makes Teilhard well worth reading and discussing by academic evolutionary scientists in addition to the general public. The reasons for reviving interest in Teilhard go beyond historical scholarship and an examination of some of his specific ideas. As the Google NGram shows, Teilhard had a way of writing about evolution that was and remains magnetically attractive to a large audience of lay readers, even life-changing for some. This was due not only to his gifts as a writer, but also his original contributions to evolutionary thought. His portrayal of evolution stands in contrast to most other portrayals, which at best appeal only to science geeks and at worst are hugely alienating to a lay audience. If Teilhard’s view of evolution is scientifically legitimate, then it can be a breakthrough in how evolution is presented to the general public. In the first section of this article, I will exam","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130094814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson","authors":"I. Delio","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"67 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128026367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness","authors":"F. Heylighen","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127462259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness","authors":"M. E. Price","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127896886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reintroducing the direction of evolution","authors":"C. Vidal","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2143405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126517305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}