Where God and science meet: how brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion

v. 1. Evolution, genes, and the religious brain

v. 2. The neurology of religious experience

v. 3. The psychology of religious experience.

Contents of v. 1: The evolutionary psychology of religion / Steven Pinker

Sacred emotions and affective neuroscience : gratitude, costly signaling, and the brain / Robert A. Emmons and Patrick McNamara

Genetic and environmental influences on the traditional moral values triad

authoritarianism, conservatism, and religiousness

as assessed by quantitative behavior genetics methods / Laura B. Koenig and Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.

Religious behaviors, badges, and bans : signaling theory and the evolution of religion / Richard Sosis

Nature's medicine : religiosity as an adaptation for health and cooperation / Joseph Bulbulia

The cognitive psychology of belief in the supernatural / Jesse M. Bering

The ritual healing theory : therapeutic suggestion and the origin of religion / James McClenon

Religion is not an adaptation / Lee A. Kirkpatrick

The cognitive and evolutionary roots of religion / Scott Atran

Amazing grace : religion and the evolution of the human mind / Ilkka Pyysiäinen

The significance of the evolution of religious belief and behavior for religious studies and theology / Wesley J. Wildman.

Contents of v. 2: The chemistry of religiosity : evidence from patients with Parkinson's disease / Patrick McNamara ... [et al.]

Religious and spiritual practices : a neurochemical perspective / Andrew B. Newberg

Neuroimaging studies of religious experience : a critical review / Nina P. Azari

Religion and the life course : is adolescence and "experience expectant" period for religious transmission? / Candace S. Alcorta

Neurotheology : a science of what? / Matthew Ratcliffe

Religion as a by-product of evolved psychology : the case of attachment and implications for brain and religion research / Pehr Granquist

Religious conversion, spiritual transformation, and the neurocognition of meaning making / Raymond E. Paloutzian, Erica L. Swenson, and Patrick McNamara

Religion and the brain : evidence from temporal lobe epilepsy / Steven C. Schachter

The frontal lobes and the evolution of cooperation and religion / Patrick McNamara

Mind design and the capacity for ritual performance / Carl Seaquist

The brain, religion, and baseball : comments on the potential for a neurology of religion and religious experience / Warren S. Brown.

Contents of v. 3: The neuropharmacology of religious experience : hallucinogens and the experience of the divine / David E. Nichols and Benjamin R. Chemel

The relationship between religion and health / Andrew B. Newberg and Bruce Y. Lee

Religion, meaning, and the brain / Crystal L. Park and Patrick McNamara

The darker side of religion : risk factors for poorer health and well-being / Gina Magyar-Russell and Kenneth Pargament

The common core thesis in the study of mysticism / Ralph W. Hood, Jr.

Cross-cultural assessments of shamanism as a biogenetic foundation for religion / Michael Winkelman

Schizophrenia, neurology, and religion : what can psychosis teach us about the evolutionary role of religion? / Steven A. Rogers and Raymond F. Paloutzian

Between yang and yin and heaven and hell : untangling the complex relationship between religion and intolerance / Ian Hansen and Ara Norenzayan

The origins of dreaming / Kelly Bulkeley

Chemical input, religious output : entheogens : a pharmatheology sampler / Thomas B. Roberts

An illusion of the future : temptations and possibilities / Keith G. Meador.