Review: Rethinking Religion
In this groundbreaking book, E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley proclaim the birth of the field of cognitive science of religion by presenting a […]
Book Reviews
Review: Atheist Delusions
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies has a most unfortunate title, and one not of the author’s making (the subtitle is Hart’s […]
Review: Beyond the Brain
Complex and flexible behavior is a major mark of intelligence. But does complex behavior necessarily require a complex brain? The basic goal of the psychologist […]
Review: Why God Won’t Go Away
Andrew Newberg, Eugene D’Aquili, and Vince Rause, the authors of Why God Won’t Go Away, present a neurological model for spiritual experience. Considering the book’s […]
Review: The Descent of Man
For contemporary readers seeking out a lucid, interdisciplinary Darwinian theory of religion, no need to stop at New Atheists Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins. Charles […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]