Funding program for investigation into the sociocultural, psychological and neurological factors that underlie the processes of spiritual transformations of individuals and groups. Includes literature review, timeline, and details of winning grants.

A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements.

Resources including online texts, course syllabi, bibliography, theoretical perspectives, and links to journals and professional organizations.

Dirk Hutsebaut's research program within the Psychology Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Includes full-text articles for download.

Directory of resources covering religious experience, therapies, and psychological theory.

Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion.

Collection of annotated links from Nikitas Kafkios. Categories include resources dealing with integration, anti-psychology sites, journals, and bibliographies.

Essay by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer recounting theory and experimental evidence for the ontological and strategic selection of supernatural concepts.

Archived cognitive science of religion email discussion list, focusing particularly on anthropological and cognitive developmental psychology research investigating the formation and transmission of religious ideas.

Publication abstracts and contact details of research program at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), headed up by Jean-Marie Jaspard. Bilingual: French and English.

The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".