Economist article giving overview of recent research in neurotheology.

The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".

Is a part of our brains hardwired to generate religious feelings? Program summary for a BBC neurotheology special.

Materials accompanying a TV special on body and mind, with an brief overview of older theories and notable neurotheology research.

Scientist and author focusing on the relationships among neuroscience, religious experience, theology, and complexity studies.

Swedish researchers conduct a double-blind study said to debunk Persinger's theories of magnetic stimulation causing religious experiences, as reported in Nature.

Geneticist and author of "The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes".

Home page of Dr. Michael Persinger, leading neurotheology theoretician at Laurentian University.

Paper outlining an evolutionary neuropsychological foundation for spiritual and religious experiences, focusing on archetypes.

Overview article from Times Online, dicussing Persinger, Blanke, Newberg.

Article discussing evolutionary, anthropological (Boyer), and neuroscientific (Ramachandran, Newberg) aspects of religion.

Author of the book "Neurotheology: Virtual Religion in the 21st Century", and possibly the originator of the term.

Paper by Olaf Blanke and team on the neurocognitive bases of out-of-body (OBE) experiences, from Journal of Neuroscience.

A site dedicated to Dr. Melvin Morse's scientific research of near death experiences, especially in children, and their connection to the right temporal lobe of the brain.

BYU scholars give a brief overview of neurotheology, and ponder the neurological basis of Joseph Smith's revelations.

Article building on work of Persinger and d'Aquili, looking at near-death experiences with neuroimaging.

Articles on spiritual experience and magnetic signal brain stimulation by one of Michael Persinger's students.

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.

A brief but balanced overview of the field.

Review of literature on neuropsychology of religious experiences, including temporal lobe model, D'Aquili's model for meditative states, and substance-induced religious experience.

Anthropologist, professor at Washington University, author of the book "Religion Explained", and proponent of the theory that the human mind is predisposed to hold and spread certain types of religious beliefs.

Article covering meditation and its relationship to the metabolism, autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and central nervous system.

Overview of the "Reductionist" and "Religionist" schools within the neurotheology field, by Jonathon Scott Feit, University Professors at BU.

Newsweek article that brought neurotheology widespread popular recognition.

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry article finding that epilepsy patients with high religiosity had smaller right hippocampi.

Article from "Science and Theology News" describing the neuroimaging of praying nuns performed by University of Montreal researcher Mario Beauregard.

Website for Matthew Alper's book which suggests that "humans are innately hard-wired to perceive a spiritual reality".

Julian Jaynes, 20th century scientist and thinker, author of "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", believed that religion is a throwback to pre-conscious bicamerality.

Online portions of a book by the same name, reviewing scientific studies, discussing behavioral effects, and giving subjective reports. Searchable bibliography on meditation research.

Wired Magazine interview of Michael Persinger, leading figure in the reductionist school of neurotheology.

Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion.

Bibliography of hundreds of scientific studies on the effects of Transcendental Meditation, including improved brain functioning.

Wired article on relationship between Tibetan meditation and the brain.

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.

Home page of Andrew Newberg, MD, leading neurotheology researcher who conducted famous neuroimaging studies on monks; collaborator with Dr. Eugene d?Aquili; author of "Mystical Mind" and "Why God Won't Go Away".

Summary of "Zen and the Brain", James H. Austin's definitive work tracing the neuroscientific aspects of Zen.