Religion and the body: modern science and the construction of religious meaning

Neurobiology and sources of religious experience and authority - Reading the body, reading scripture: the implications of neurobiology on the study and interpretation of scripture/David Cave - De/constructing transcendence: the emergence of religious bodies/James W. Haag and Whitney A. Bauman - Tongues of men and angels: assessing the neural correlates of glossolalia/John J. McGraw - Synchronized ritual behavior: religion, cognition and the dynamics of embodiment/Sebastian schuler

Culture and the de- and re-construction of the body - Religion, neuroscience and emotion: some implications of consumerism and entertainment culture/Rebecca Sachs Norris - Every story is a ghost: Chuck Palahniuk and the reenchantment of suffering/Eric Repphun - Attaining transcendence: transhumanism, the body, and the Abrahamic religious/Arthur Saniotis

(Cross) cultural appropriations of the body - Magnetism and microwaves: religion as radiation/Deana l. Weibel - Scientific approaches to the body in the spiritual-physical marketplace/Mira Karjalainen - Sleep deprivation: asceticism, religious experience and neurological quandaries/Nuria M. Farre-I-Barril - Sikhism and mental illness: negotiating competing cultures/Jagbir Jhutti-Johal.