Mario Beauregard, University of Montreal neuroscientist, has studied when religious feelings are experienced by using sophisticated brain scans to see inside the brains of Carmelite nuns as they recall a spiritual experience.

Michael Persinger, psychology professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, has conducted experiments with a helmet that pulses bursts of electrical activity to the brain, stimulating what he calls a “God experience.” The experience of God, he says, is definitely produced in the brain.

Amir Hussain is professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is a former editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. His research focuses on Islam in North America, with additional expertise in religion and music, religion and literature, religion and film and Islam and Christian-Muslim relations.

The Movie Theology website lists movie reviews, movie theology blogs, film discussion groups and articles on faith and film.

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a web-based, peer-reviewed journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of the interrelations and interactions between religion and religious expression and popular culture, broadly defined as the products of contemporary mass culture. The journal is based in Canada, but international […]

TotallyJewishTravel sells advertising space for Passover events in more than 40 U.S. locations and on five continents. It’s a good place to look for an overview.

The Wandering Jew, part of Ontario Travel Bureau, is an agency that books more than 50 Passover events, including Seder cruises.

Janet T. Landa, a retired economics professor at York University in Toronto, has written about the bioeconomics of religious and ethnically homogenous merchant groups.

Interfaith Voices for Peace and Justice allows you to search for groups by state.