References

Books

The Social Animal- David Brooks, Random House, 2010

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction- Rebecca Goldstein, Pantheon, 2010

Principles of Neurotheology-  Andrew B. Newberg, Ashgate, 2010

The Neuroscience of Religious Experience-  Patrick McNamara, Cambridge University Press, 2009

The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures-  Nicholas Wade, Penguin Press, 2009

Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature-  Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown, Templeton Foundation Press, 2009

Medicine, Religion, & Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet-  Harold G. Koenig, MD, Templeton Foundation Press, 2008

Me of Little Faith- Lewis Black, Riverhead Books, 2008

Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion-  Todd Tremlin, Oxford, 2006

When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?-  George Carlin, Comedy Concepts Inc., 2004

In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion-  Scott Atran, Oxford, 2002

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time-  Michael Shermer, Henry Holt, 2002

Religion Explained- Pascal R. Boyer, Basic Books, 2001

 

Articles

Harris S, Kaplan JT, Curiel A, Bookheimer SY, Iacoboni M, Cohen MS. (2009) The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7272.

Harris, S., Sheth, S.A., Cohen, M.S. (2008) Functional neuroimaging of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty.  Annals of Neurology, vol. 63, issue 2, 141-147.

Hodgkinson, G.P., Langan-Fox, J., and Sandler-Smith, E. (2008)  Intuition: A fundamental bridging construct in the behavioural sciences.  British Journal of Psychology, 99, 1-27.

 

Websites

A Neurobiological Basis for Religious Belief-   Jonathan T. Pararajasingham

Lewis Black

Michael Shermer

Project Reason

Steven Pinker

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

 

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