SPEAKING ACROSS THE CHASM: Literature as a Bridge Between Science and Religion

[...] the extensive bibliography4 currently available on the subject, only possible now due to advances in bio-analytical techniques (such as positron-emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance), suggests that the biology of religious experience is bound to attract increasing scholarly attention in the future. Wilson's approach will allow knowledge from biology, social sciences, literature, philosophy, as well as computer sciences to help us understand how ideas (about morality, mortality, and responsibility) that have captured the religious imagination through the ages may have managed to give rise to communities united on the basis of faith.