Review: Inside the Neolithic Mind
David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce’s Inside the Neolithic Mind (Thames & Hudson, 2005) claims to descend into the nebulous world of Neolithic people’s consciousness in […]
Articles by Dave Rohr
Review: Medicine, Religion, and Health
With Medicine, Religion, and Health (Templeton Foundation Press, 2008), Harold Koenig makes a valuable contribution to understanding the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health for […]
IN FOCUS: Religion, spirituality, and health – Part II
In December 2011, the Journal of Behavioral Medicine dedicated an entire issue to studies focusing on religion, spirituality, and health. Many of these papers attempt […]
IN FOCUS: Religion, spirituality, and health
Over recent years, researchers have gotten serious about studying the effects of religion on health. Before the turn of the millennium, there were abundant studies […]
Review: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
As one might expect given the title, Roy Rappaport in Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge University Press, 1999) spends a great […]
Review: Saving God
Most professors of religion seem content to stay in their ivory tower. They stand above popular-level religious debates and so have little to do with […]
Review: The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain
It is a pleasure to review a book about the science of spirituality that is refreshingly free of ideological axes to grind. The author of […]
Review: Religion in Mind
Given its penchant for to publishing findings in obscure journals, one can easily miss the profound discoveries in the field of the cognitive study of […]
Religion and personality
Envision the typical religious believer. What personality traits come to mind? For some people, religious people epitomize ignorance, intolerance, and stubbornness; for others, they personify […]
Book review: Science and the Spiritual Quest
Nearly a decade and a half ago, an elite group of scientists gathered in Berkeley, California, to participate in a groundbreaking project called Science and […]