Neurology and Religion

Alasdair Coles is is Professor of Clinical Neuroimmunology, University of Cambridge; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and an ordained priest in the Diocese of Ely, Church of England. Joanna Collicutt is Karl Jaspers Lecturer in Psychology and Spirituality at Ripon College Cuddesdon and a Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. She is a clinical neuropsychologist and Anglican priest and was for many years head of the Oxfordshire neuropsychological rehabilitation service.

'It is difficult to overstate the timeliness and importance of this book …' Emeritus Malcolm Jeeves, Science & Christian Belief

• Editor's introduction; Part I. Basic Issues in the Neurological Study of Religion: 1. The discipline of neurology Alasdair Coles; 2. The scientific study of religion Joanna Collicutt; 3. Methodological hazards in the neuroscientific study of religion Stuart Judge; 4. Embodied cognition and the neurology of religion Warren Brown; 5. Phenomenology, neurology, psychiatry, and religious commitment Ian Kidd; 6. Philosophical hazards in the neuroscientific study of religion Daniel de Haan; 7. The glass onion and the mereological fallacy Sophie Grace Chappell; 8. Toward an Islamic neuropsychiatry: a classification of the diseases of the head in Abul-Hasan 'Alibn Sahl At-Tabari's paradise of women Neil Agarawak; Part II. Neurology and Religion: 9. Temporal lobe epilepsy, Dostoyevsky and irrational significance Alasdair Coles; 10. Parkinson's disease, religious belief and spirituality Clare Refern and Roger Baker; 11. Beyond reasonable doubt: cognitive and neuropsychological implications for religious disbelief Gordon Pennycook, Daniel Tranel, Kelsey Warner and Erik W. Asp; 12. Ramadam fasting and neurological disorders Ashraf El-Mitwalli; 13. Autism and the panoply of religious belief, disbelief and experience Kelly Clark and Ingela Visuri; 14. Personhood and religion in people with dementia Julian Hughes; 15. Religion and frontotemporal dementia Nicolas Block and Bruce Miller; 16. Religion and spirituality in neuro-rehabilitation: a case study Joanna Collicutt; 17. Eastern spirituality, mind-body practices and neuro-rehabilitation Giles Yeates; 18. Examining the continuum of life to determine death: a Jewish perspective Aron Buchman; 19. Near death and out of body experience: a case for dialogue between scientist and theologian? Michael Marsh.