Perspectives on Spiritual Intelligence

<p>The topic of intelligence involves questions that cut deep into ultimate concerns and human identity and the study of intelligence is an ideal ground for dialogue between science and religion. This volume investigates the notion of spiritual intelligence from a variety of perspectives bringing together contributions from theology computer science linguistics psychology biology and cognitive science. It defines spiritual intelligence as “processing things <i>differently</i> not processing different things” and aims to describe it in naturalistic terms. Spiritual intelligence is not regarded as a separate mental module or a magical ability to interact with the supernatural but rather as a specific more spiritual way of engagement with reality which has observable cognitive phenomenal and linguistic characteristics. The book is valuable reading for those working at the interface between science and spirituality.</p>