#Brain Science

Neurotheology is the discipline that attempts to measure the effects of prayer by scanning the brain. It speaks of faith and gray matter in the same breath, using the prestige of science to legitimize religion. During meditation, alpha waves are dubbed "the voice of God," while sacred battles over research funding rage on. In the end, it’s merely a product of the believer’s body heat and the researcher’s imagination mingling. Proclaiming a honeymoon between science and religion, it quietly consumes itself on the border of both worlds.