Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners
Dr Hay is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Universityof Aberdeen. A zoologist by profession, his research has been guided by the hypothesis that religious or spiritual awareness is biologically natural to the human species and has been selected for in the process of organic evolution because it has survival value. Although naturalistic, this hypothesis is not intended to be reductionist with regard to religion. Nevertheless it does imply that all people, including those who have no religious belief, have a spiritual life. His research has included a number of national and in-depth surveys of reports of religious or spiritual experience in the United Kingdom. .

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Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners
Dr Hay is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Universityof Aberdeen. A zoologist by profession, his research has been guided by the hypothesis that religious or spiritual awareness is biologically natural to the human species and has been selected for in the process of organic evolution because it has survival value. Although naturalistic, this hypothesis is not intended to be reductionist with regard to religion. Nevertheless it does imply that all people, including those who have no religious belief, have a spiritual life. His research has included a number of national and in-depth surveys of reports of religious or spiritual experience in the United Kingdom. .

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Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners

Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners

by David Hay
Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners
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Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners

Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners

by David Hay

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Dr Hay is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Universityof Aberdeen. A zoologist by profession, his research has been guided by the hypothesis that religious or spiritual awareness is biologically natural to the human species and has been selected for in the process of organic evolution because it has survival value. Although naturalistic, this hypothesis is not intended to be reductionist with regard to religion. Nevertheless it does imply that all people, including those who have no religious belief, have a spiritual life. His research has included a number of national and in-depth surveys of reports of religious or spiritual experience in the United Kingdom. .

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ISBN-13: 9781845400484
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Publication date: 07/01/2007
Series: Societas
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.07(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Hay was previously director of the Religious Experience Research Unit at Oxford University, now known as the Religious Experience Research Centre, and is currently honorary senior research fellow in the department of divinity and religious studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of many books and articles and the co-author with Rebecca Nye of "The Spirit of the Child. He lives in Nottingham, England."

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