The Neuroscience of Encountering God

Researchers who scan brains for a living have spent the last two decades doing something that makes both scientists and theologians uncomfortable: watching what happens inside your skull when you pray.The results haven’t been kind to simple narratives. Neuroscience hasn’t debunked faith. It hasn’t confirmed it either. What it’s done is considerably stranger — it’s started mapping the biological architecture of belief, and the picture emerging is more complex than an