The scans showed activity in the nucleus accumbens, an area often associated with reward and pleasure, in addition to addiction.Brain activity during the religious experience has been found to be similar to that seen during gambling, sex, love and listening to music.Dr Jeff Anderson, a study co-author, said: "Religious experience is perhaps the most influential part of how people make decisions that affect all of us, for good and for ill.Activity also occurred in the medial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain critical to judgment and moral reasoning."Understanding what happens in the brain China Wood Beads Suppliers to contribute to those decisions is really important.A recent study, published in the journal Social Neuroscience, which monitored brain activity of devout Mormons during religious videos and the reading of religious quotes, showed activity in areas of the brain central to reward.Michael Ferguson, the study’s first author, said: "When our study participants were instructed to think about a saviour, about being with their families for eternity, about their heavenly rewards, their brains and bodies physically responded.indy100.　

Is that because of the economic crisis or the "refugee crisis" which is being given the loaded term "migrant" crisis. They are not searching for honest answers; they feel scapegoats will suffice.New xenophobia is pronounced in those circles that reap the most benefits from neo-liberal high capitalism, where most of capital does not exist as cash but circulates as numbers and most of capital is not invested in any material production or trade. Ophiophobics might not just fear snakes but also anything that resembles snakes, like a rope. Hence, the seemingly "feudal" and reactionary character of most kinds of religious revivalism, also in India. You are not kept out because you belong to another race, but because you will take away jobs, etc. This is a high ratio. And many of the others are not necessarily xenophobic but bewildered by what they cannot understand. Or, as happened during Nazi times, we construct a people (say, "Jews") using the image of dangerous, sneaky snakes — and we strike at the people. Khair’s book Muslim Modernities analysed the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Iraq war, Danish Prophet cartoon controversy objectively and his novel How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position focused on how Muslims are perceived and judged and how one kind of Muslim judges another.

　　Moreover, as I illustrate in my book, human society consists of strangers; strangers are not always feared.. Xenophobia is evoked to empower the in-group over the out-group, partly because the real structures of fear, oppression and confusion are not addressed. By definition, a phobia is not just a natural fear, but an exaggerated and abnormal one. In your book you write that "no one’s a racist", then how does racism still exist Is it that Eurepean countries are ghettoising the migrant population because they form "cheap labour" Racism is a form of old xenophobia. But xenophobia constructs some groups as particular types of strangers who should be feared and hated. For every xenophobic German or Frenchman, there is at least one German or Frenchman who is open to strangers, including Muslims. This has to do with power, an unfair bid at power. That is what xenophobes — including religious and nationalist ones — are not willing to do. Where would Wahhabis be without rich Saudi Arabia Where would the Christian right in America be without its funding and its "white" economic privileges Would the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria continue to get the funds it needs and smuggle out the oil it smuggles out without a "global" capitalist system where the flow of international capital is left almost unchecked Religious fundamentalists sometimes portray themselves as opposed to some aspects of global high capitalism, but they are knee-deep in its mud and their "remedies" point to the past because they have no real solution for the future.