{"product_id":"neuromatic-john-lardas-modern-9780226799629","title":"Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain","description":"\u003cb\u003eJohn Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology's pivotal role in religious history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNeuromatic\u003c\/i\u003e, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. \u003ci\u003eNeuromatic \u003c\/i\u003eis a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, \u003ci\u003eNeuromatic \u003c\/i\u003etakes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Lardas Modern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022679962X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226799629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2022","brand":"John Lardas Modern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043208229119,"sku":"9780226799629","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59b5928e-54bd-4464-a0e2-92b0b8d2f2af.jpg?v=1684965852","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neuromatic-john-lardas-modern-9780226799629","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}