My first book, Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations, has recently gone out of print. This means that for the first time...

A great event in which I joined other scholars in a free, open-access online event for anyone curious about near-death experiences,...

In 1838 a Mormon pioneer woman named Phoebe Carter Woodruff had an NDE as a result of "brain fever." Her illness was brought on by a...

Seems like a pretty straightforward question, but you might be surprised at the misuses and misconceptions out there - which at least...

The earliest known account of a near-death experience from an actual documentary source (as opposed to a religious or mythological one)...

In 1928, this American fascist, fraudster, and occultist wrote an article about his NDE. Was it a genuine account or just propaganda?

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that because of the pandemic, Oxford University Press has temporarily suspended issuing...

I was recently invited by by the Religious Studies Project to respond to an interview with another scholar of near-death experiences who...

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