宗教体验的神经生理基础

Neural and Physiological Basis of Religious Experience

宗教体验是人在宗教活动中的心态或体悟及伴随的情感体验，它是一个过程。其神经生理基础的研究表明，宗教体验过程中大脑的某些特定脑波或区域被激活。这些研究表明宗教体验与认知和情绪有关，在一定程度上与早期有关宗教体验实质的结论吻合，但这并不表明大脑中存在“上帝脑区”。该文简要介绍了宗教体验的概念、冥想以及基督教宗教体验神经生理基础的研究以及跨宗教传统的相关比较研究，并对该领域内的一些问题做出了说明。

Religious experience is a process， and it means psychology， realization and the incidental emotion experience of human in the religion activities. The studies of its neural and physiological basis suggest that some certain areas of the human brain and brain wave are activated during the religious experience. These studies go a step further indicating that the relation between religious experience and cognition and emotion， and to a certain extend， that is congruent with the theory of the essential of religious experience， but it do not make clear that there are “GOD modules” in the brain. Since the idea is first proposed， a great deal of relevant neural and physiological basis research has accrued. Here we give a brief review of the studies of religious experience.