{"id":37,"date":"2007-07-10T21:25:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T01:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/religion\/selected-publications\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T04:34:33","slug":"selected-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/religion\/selected-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Publications on Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Books on Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 203px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"655\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/len\/files\/2009\/05\/photo-coming-soon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-589\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; padding: 10px;\" src=\"\/len\/files\/2009\/05\/photo-coming-soon.jpg\" alt=\"in-press1\" width=\"80\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>Science and the World&#8217;s Religions<\/strong><br \/>\nPatrick McNamara and Wesley Wildman (Editors)<br \/>\nABC-CLIO, anticipated publication date is January 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\"><a href=\"\/len\/files\/2009\/03\/in-press1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-589\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 5px;padding: 10px\" src=\"\/len\/files\/2009\/06\/the-neurosceince-of-religious-experience_edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"in-press1\" width=\"80\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521889582\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Neuroscience of Religious Experience<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPatrick McNamara<br \/>\nCambridge University Press, 2009<\/td>\n<tr>\n<td>This book is a contribution to the emerging cognitive neuroscientific study of religious experiences and practices. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwood.com\/catalog\/C8788.aspx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwood.com\/catalog\/C8788.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 5px;padding: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/len\/files\/Images\/wheregodandsciencemeet.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Where God and Science Meet\" width=\"80\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><strong><a title=\"Where God and Science Meet (Praeger Publishers)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwood.com\/catalog\/C8788.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter <\/a><\/strong><strong><a title=\"Where God and Science Meet (Praeger Publishers)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwood.com\/catalog\/C8788.aspx\">Our Understanding of Religion (3 Volumes)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Volume I: Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain<br \/>\nVolume II: The Neurology of Religious Experience<br \/>\nVolume III: The Psychology of Religious Experience<\/em><br \/>\nPatrick McNamara (Editor)<br \/>\nPraeger Publishing, 2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwood.com\/catalog\/C8788.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Press Chapters and Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McNamara, P., &amp; Butler, P. M. (in press). The neuropsychology of religious experience. In R. F. Paloutzian &amp; C. L. Park (Eds.), <em>The handbook of the psychology of religion<\/em>, 2nd ed. New York: The Guilford Press.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P., &amp; Burns, J. (in press). Religiosity as protective against addictions in adolescents. In A. Browne-Miller (Ed.), <em>Addictions<\/em> (4 vols.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Original Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Butler, P. M., McNamara, P., Ghofrani, J., &amp; Durso, R. (2011). Disease-associated differences in religious cognition in patients with Parkinson&#8217;s Disease. <em>Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, <\/em>i<em>First<\/em>, 1-12.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P. (2011). Response to Taves et al. <em>Religion, 41<\/em>(1), 97-101.<\/li>\n<li>Butler, P. M., McNamara, P., &amp; Durso, R. (2011). Side of onset in Parkinson&#8217;s Disease and alterations in religiosity: Novel behavioral phenotype. <em>Behavioural Neurology, 24<\/em>(2), 133-141.<\/li>\n<li>Wildman, W. J., &amp; McNamara, P. (2010). Evaluating reliance on narratives in the psychological study of religious experiences. <em>The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 20<\/em>, 223-254.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P. (2010). <em>The neuroscience of religious experience<\/em> &#8211; A response to the Runyan-Kreitzer review. <em>Christian Scholar&#8217;s Review, 39<\/em>(4), 479-481.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P., Burns, J., Johnson, P., &amp; McCorkle, B. H. (2010). How does religiousness protect against risky health behaviors? <em>Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2<\/em>(1), 30-34.<\/li>\n<li>Butler, P. M., McNamara, P., &amp; Durso, R. (2010). Deficits in the automatic activation of religious concepts in patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease. <em>Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16<\/em>(2), 252-261. PMID: 19958570<\/li>\n<li>Wildman, W., &amp; McNamara, P. (2008). Challenges facing the neurological study of religious behavior, belief and experience. <em>Method &amp; Theory in the Study of Religion, 20,<\/em> 212-242.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P., Durso, R., &amp; Brown, A. (2006). Religiosity in patients with Parkinson\u2019s disease. <em>Neuropsychiatric Disease &amp; Treatment, 2<\/em>(3), 341-348.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P., Andresen, J., &amp; Gellard, J. (2003). Relation of religiosity and scores on fluency tests to subjective reports of health in older individuals. <em>The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 13<\/em>(4), 259-271.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P. (2002). The frontal lobes, social intelligence, and religious worship. <em>Ideas for Creative Research in Neurobiology.<\/em> The John Templeton Foundation (pp. 50-59).<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P. (2002). The motivational origins of religious practices. <em>Zygon: A Journal of Science and Religion, 37<\/em>(1), 143-160.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McNamara, P., &amp; Butler, P. M. (2011). De-personalization and the psychobiology of evil. In J. Harold Ellens (Ed.), <em>Explaining evil: Volume I: Definitions and development<\/em> (pp. 50-63). Praeger, CT: Greenwood Press.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2011). Religious coping strategies in healthy elderly and in those at risk for dementia. In <em>Dementia: Volume 3: Treatments and developments <\/em>(pp.119-134). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.<\/li>\n<li>Harris, E., &amp; McNamara, P. (2008). Is religiousness a biocultural adaptation? In J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, &amp; C. Genet (Eds.), <em>The evolution of religion: Studies, theories, and critiques<\/em> (pp. 69-75). Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P., &amp; Szent-Imrey, R. (2007). Understanding miracles in relationship to standard religious experiences. In J. H. Ellens (Ed.), <em>The psychology and science of miracle healing: Volume 1:<\/em> <em>Religious and spiritual events.<\/em> Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.<\/li>\n<li>Emmons, R., &amp; McNamara, P. (2006). Sacred emotions and affective neuroscience: Gratitude, costly-signaling, and the brain. In P. McNamara (Ed.), <em>Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume I: Evolution, genes, and the religious brain<\/em> (pp. 11-30). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>Park, C., &amp; McNamara, P. (2006). Religion, meaning, and the brain. In P. McNamara (Ed.), <em>Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume III: The psychology of religious experience<\/em> (pp. 67-89). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>Paloutzian, R., Swenson, E., &amp; McNamara, P. (2006). Religious conversion, spiritual transformation, and the neurocognition of meaning making. In P. McNamara (Ed.), <em>Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience<\/em> (pp. 151-169). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P., Durso, R., Brown, A., &amp; Harris, E. (2006). The chemistry of religiosity: Evidence from patients with Parkinson\u2019s disease. In P. McNamara (Ed.), <em>Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: VolumeII: The neurology of religious experience<\/em> (pp. 1-14). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P. (Ed.). (2006). The frontal lobes, and the evolution of cooperation and religion. In <em>Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion: Volume II: The neurology of religious experience<\/em> (pp. 189-204). Westport, CT and London: Praeger Perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>McNamara, P. (2001). Religion and the frontal lobes. In J. Andresen (Ed.), <em>Religion in mind<\/em> (pp. 237-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books on Religion Science and the World&#8217;s Religions Patrick McNamara and Wesley Wildman (Editors) ABC-CLIO, anticipated publication date is January 2012 The Neuroscience of Religious Experience Patrick McNamara Cambridge University Press, 2009 This book is a contribution to the emerging cognitive neuroscientific study of religious experiences and practices. 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