TY - MANSCPT AU - Newberg, Andrew TI - Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief SN - 9780345440341 U1 - 231.042 23 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - God KW - Existence KW - Faith and reason KW - Psychology and religion N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Why have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Why does consciousness inevitably involve us in a spiritual quest? Why, in short, won't God go away? Theologians, philosophers, and psychologists have debated this question through the ages, arriving at a range of contradictory and ultimately unprovable answers. But in this brilliant, groundbreaking new book, researchers Andrew Newberg and Eugene d'Aquili offer an explanation that is at once profoundly simple and scientifically precise: the religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain ER -