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Religion and the Brain.  - http://www.templeton.org/brainmindemergence/press-newsweek20010507.asp  Newsweek article that brought neurotheology widespread popular recognition.  A Mystical Union  - http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2478148  Economist article giving overview of recent research in neurotheology.  This Is Your Brain on God  - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger_pr.html  Wired Magazine interview of Michael Persinger, leading figure in the reductionist school of neurotheology.  Neurotheology on Wikipedia  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology  A brief but balanced overview of the field.  Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality  - http://www.maps.org/media/vedantam.html  Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion.  Neurology of Spiritual Experiences  - http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/  Articles on spiritual experience and magnetic signal brain stimulation by one of Michael Persinger's students.  Wired for the Ultimate Reality: The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience  - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/newberg.html  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.  The "God" Part Of The Brain  - http://godpart.com/  Website for Matthew Alper's book which suggests that "humans are innately hard-wired to perceive a spiritual reality".  Probing Neurotheology's Brain, or Critiquing and Emerging Quasi-Science  - http://www.citizenculture.com/about/neurotheolo.pdf  Overview of the "Reductionist" and "Religionist" schools within the neurotheology field, by Jonathon Scott Feit, University Professors at BU.  Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction  - http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/3/550  Paper by Olaf Blanke and team on the neurocognitive bases of out-of-body (OBE) experiences, from Journal of Neuroscience.  Zen and the Brain  - http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/zen_and.html  Summary of "Zen and the Brain", James H. Austin's definitive work tracing the neuroscientific aspects of Zen.  Neurotheology & Shamanism  - http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/winkelman1.htm  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.  Study asks whether chemicals and communion are one  - http://www.mapageweb.umontreal.ca/beauregm/study_asks_whether.htm  Article from "Science and Theology News" describing the neuroimaging of praying nuns performed by University of Montreal researcher Mario Beauregard.  What Buddhists Know About Science  - http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,53820,00.html?tw=wn_story_related  Wired article on relationship between Tibetan meditation and the brain.  Are We Hardwired for God?  - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4351726,00.html  The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".  Physiology of meditation  - http://ejmas.com/pt/ptart_shin_0400.htm  Article covering meditation and its relationship to the metabolism, autonomic nervous system, endocrine system, and central nervous system.  Transcendental Meditation Scientific Research  - http://www.tm.org.nz/research/  Bibliography of hundreds of scientific studies on the effects of Transcendental Meditation, including improved brain functioning.  On the Neuropsychology of Religious Experiences  - http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~bhidalgo/litreview.htm  Review of literature on neuropsychology of religious experiences, including temporal lobe model, D'Aquili's model for meditative states, and substance-induced religious experience.  Neurological Correlates of Transformational Experiences  - http://www.meridianinstitute.com/reports/neurocor.html  Article building on work of Persinger and d'Aquili, looking at near-death experiences with neuroimaging.  Religiosity is associated with hippocampal but not amygdala volumes in patients with refractory epilepsy -- Wuerfel et al. 75 (4): 640 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry  - http://jnnp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/75/4/640  Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry article finding that epilepsy patients with high religiosity had smaller right hippocampi.  Meridian Magazine :: Neurotheology  - http://www.meridianmagazine.com/ideas/040216neurotheology.html  BYU scholars give a brief overview of neurotheology, and ponder the neurological basis of Joseph Smith's revelations.  Body and Mind  - http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/body/exorcism.html  Materials accompanying a TV special on body and mind, with an brief overview of older theories and notable neurotheology research.  Doubt cast on theory that magnetic fields spark religious feelings  - http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041206/pf/041206-10_pf.html  Swedish researchers conduct a double-blind study said to debunk Persinger's theories of magnetic stimulation causing religious experiences, as reported in Nature.  The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation  - http://www.noetic.org/research/medbiblio/ch_intro1.htm  Online portions of a book by the same name, reviewing scientific studies, discussing behavioral effects, and giving subjective reports. Searchable bibliography on meditation research.  Ghosts in a machine  - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-1509923_1,00.html  Overview article from Times Online, dicussing Persinger, Blanke, Newberg.  BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - God on the Brain  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml  Is a part of our brains hardwired to generate religious feelings? Program summary for a BBC neurotheology special.  Guardian Unlimited | Life | Tests of faith  - http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1423450,00.html  Article discussing evolutionary, anthropological (Boyer), and neuroscientific (Ramachandran, Newberg) aspects of religion.  Meditation and the Brain  - http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/02/newton0204.asp?p=1  Report on a conference held by MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, bringing together Buddhists and neuroscientists.  Evolutionary Neurotheology and the Varieties of Religious Experience  - ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/maclennan/EvolutionaryNeurotheology-long.pdf  Article by Bruce McLennan of University of Tennessee, outlining a neuropsychological approach to religious experience based on archetypal psychology.  The God Gene  - http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2004/articles_2004_hamer.html  Carl Zimmer critically reviews Dean Hamer's book "The God Gene: How Faith Is Hard-wired Into Our Genes".  How the Brain Creates God  - http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/magick/createsgod.htm  Broad-ranging overview by Iona Miller, touching on archetypes, NDEs, drugs, trances, TMS, and shamanism.  The Evolution of Wonder: Religious and Neuroscientific Perspect  - http://home.att.net/~pcr-aar/2002/bulkeley.htm  Paper by Kelly Bulkeley discussing the phenomenon of wonder.  Numenware, a blog about neurotheology  - http://www.numenware.com  Frequently updated blog about neurotheology. Also covers some general neuroscience, Dogen, language, and Japan topics.