Experimenting with Religion

This book showcases several experiments as examples of how psychologists can study religion and spirituality, casting a light on both the ingenuity and limitations of each. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that such scientific experiments are works of imagination that can help us discover truths about the human mind's proclivity for religious ideas, as long as we can adapt and learn along the way.

Jonathan Jong is an Assistant Professor at Coventry University, prior to which he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is also a Research Associate at the Ian Ramey Centre for Science and Religion and St Benet's Hall, Oxford, and a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.

Preface and acknowledgements
1. (How) can psychologists study religion?
2. Does thinking cause atheism?
3. Are children creationists?
4. Is God like Superman?
5. Do children believe in souls?
6. What does God know?
7. What makes an effective ritual?
8. Does death anxiety drive religion?
Epilogue
Notes