Author: Ian Cotton
British journalist Ian Cotton has written for the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, and the Guardian. He is the author of The Hallelujah Revolution: The Rise of the New Christians (Prometheus Books, 1996), from which this article is excerpted.
Dr. Persinger’s God Machine
One day in January 1993, while researching a book on religious conversions and the evangelical revival, I was leafing through a back number of Numinus, the journal put out by the Alister Hardy Centre in Oxford (which collects and analyzes case histories of religious experience). In a footnote, I read the following: Members will be …