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Article claiming there is no scientific rationale for the nouveau term "Neurotheology", and that researchers working on topics relating to religion should stick to the conventional Behavioural and Social Neurosciences categories.
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Economist article giving overview of recent research in neurotheology.
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The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".
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Is a part of our brains hardwired to generate religious feelings? Program summary for a BBC neurotheology special.
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Materials accompanying a TV special on body and mind, with an brief overview of older theories and notable neurotheology research.
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Discussion of relationship between drugs, celibacy, fasting and other physical practices and ecstasy. Presented by Kaj Bjorkqvist at Symposium on Religions Ecstasy held at Åbo, Finland, on the 26th-28th of August 1981.
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Overview article from Times Online, discussing Persinger, Blanke, Newberg.
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Article discussing evolutionary, anthropological (Boyer), and neuroscientific (Ramachandran, Newberg) aspects of religion.
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Broad-ranging overview by Iona Miller, touching on archetypes, NDEs, drugs, trances, TMS, and shamanism.
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Paper by Olaf Blanke and team on the neurocognitive bases of out-of-body (OBE) experiences, from Journal of Neuroscience.
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Report on a conference held by MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, bringing together Buddhists and neuroscientists.
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BYU scholars give a brief overview of neurotheology, and ponder the neurological basis of Joseph Smith's revelations.
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Article building on work of Persinger and d'Aquili, looking at near-death experiences with neuroimaging.
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Articles on spiritual experience and magnetic signal brain stimulation by one of Michael Persinger's students.
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Dr. Michael Winkelman, Anthropology Professor at Arizona State and author of "Shamanism: The Neural Economy of Consciousness", discusses the neurological basis of shamanism, mankind's oldest spiritual practice.
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A brief but balanced overview of the field.
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Frequently updated weblog about neurotheology. Also covers some general neuroscience, Dogen, language, and Japan topics.
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Review of literature on neuropsychology of religious experiences, including temporal lobe model, D'Aquili's model for meditative states, and substance-induced religious experience.
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Article covering meditation and its relationship to the metabolism, autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and central nervous system.
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Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry article finding that epilepsy patients with high religiosity had smaller right hippocampi.
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Article from "Science and Theology News" describing the neuroimaging of praying nuns performed by University of Montreal researcher Mario Beauregard.
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Website for Matthew Alper's book which suggests that "humans are innately hard-wired to perceive a spiritual reality".
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New Times article on Jesse Bering, who has researched children's belief in the afterlife, and the reaction to his work.
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Online portions of a book by the same name, reviewing scientific studies, discussing behavioral effects, and giving subjective reports. Searchable bibliography on meditation research.
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American Journal of Psychiatry research showing that "binding potential" (serotonin levels) correlated inversely with scores for self-transcendence.
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Wired Magazine interview of Michael Persinger, leading figure in the reductionist school of neurotheology.
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Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion.
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Wired article on relationship between Tibetan meditation and the brain.
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Article by Drs. Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili on the biological mechanisms underlying religious and spiritual experience, from the PBS "The Question of God" series.
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Summary of "Zen and the Brain", James H. Austin's definitive work tracing the neuroscientific aspects of Zen.
