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The Search for the Science of Spirituality
Riverhead Books
May 2009
On Sale: May 14, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 1594488770
EAN: 9781594488771
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 —even scientifically—explained. Hagerty interviews some of the world’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 Hagerty’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 person’s search for a communion with a higher
power and what she discovered on that journey.
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