Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences Michael Winkelman Caixa Postal 62
Retired
Arizona State University
Pirenopolis, Goias, Brazil
Biography
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Biography
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON RELIGION OF MICHAEL JAMES WINKELMAN
With links to Researchgate and Publishers/DOI.
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
2019 The Supernatural After the Neuro-Turn (eds. P. Craffert, J. Baker and M.J.Winkelman). Researchgate link. Publisher link.
2019 Psychedelics in History and World Religions. Guest Editor Vol. 3 Special Issue of the Journal of Psychedelic Studies. Researchgate link
2015 Supernatural as Natural: A Biological Theory of Religion. NY: Routledge/Taylor and Francis (M.J. Winkelman and J. Baker). Publisher link.
2010 Shamanism: A biopsychosocial paradigm of consciousness and healing. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (Second Edition). Publisher link.
1992 Shamans, Priests and Witches: A Cross-cultural Study of Magico-religious Practitioners. Anthropological Research Papers #44. Tempe: Arizona State University. Researchgate link.
ARTICLES
2021 An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past. J Archaeol Method Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09523-9 Researchgate link.
2021 Anthropology, Shamanism and Hallucinogens. In C.S. Grob and J. Grigsby (eds.) Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens (pp. 46-67) NY: Guilford Press. Researchgate link. Publisher link.
2021 A cross-cultural study of the elementary forms of religious life: shamanistic healers, priests, and witches, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 11(1):27-45. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2020.1770845/ Researchgate link. Publisher link.
2019 Introduction: Evidence for entheogen use in prehistory and world religions. Journal of Psychedelic Studies Special Issue: Psychedelics in History and World Religions 3:43–62. Researchgate link.
2019 The “Kamasutra” temples of India: A case for the encoding of psychedelically induced spirituality. Journal of Psychedelic Studies Special Issue: Psychedelics in History and World Religions 3:81-103 (M. Maillart-Garg and M.J. Winkelman). Researchgate link.
2019 The entheogenic origins of Mormonism: A working hypothesis. Journal of Psychedelic Studies Special Issue: Psychedelics in History and World Religions 3:212-260. (R. Beckstead, B. Blankenagel, C. Noconi and M.J. Winkelman). Researchgate link.
2019 The evolutionary origins of the supernatural in ritual behaviours. In P. Craffert, J. Baker and M.J. Winkelman (eds.) The Supernatural After the Neuro-turn (pp. 48-68). Researchgate link.
2019 The supernatural as innate cognitive operators. In P. Craffert, J. Baker and M.J. Winkelman (eds.) The Supernatural After the Neuro-turn (pp. 89-106). Researchgate link.
2019 Shamanic alterations of consciousness as sources of supernatural experiences. In P. Craffert, J. Baker and M.J. Winkelman (eds.) The Supernatural After the Neuro-turn. p. 127-147. Researchgate link.
2018 Shamanism and Possession. In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Researchgate link. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1651
2017 Shamanism and the brain. In Clements, N.K. (ed.) Religion: Mental religion (pp. 355-372). MacMillan Interdisciplinary handbooks. USA: MacMillan. Researchgate link.
2016 Ethnological and Neurophenomenological Approaches to Religious Experiences. In B. Schmidt, (ed.) The Study of Religious Experience Approaches and Methodologies (pp. 33-51). Bristol, CT: Equiox Publishing. Researchgate link.
2015 Shamanism as a biogenetic structural paradigm for humans’ evolved social psychology. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 7(4):267-277. Researchgate link. doi:10.1037/rel0000034
2014 Political and Demographic-Ecological Determinants of Institutionalized Human Sacrifice, Anthropological Forum 24:1, 47-70. Researchgate link.
2013d. Shamanism and psychedelics: A biogenetic structuralist paradigm of ecopsychology. European Journal of Ecopsychology 4: 90-115. Researchgate link.
2010 The Shamanic Paradigm: Evidence from Ethnology, Neuropsychology and Ethology. Time and Mind. The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 3(2):159-182. Researchgate link.
2009 Shamanism and the Origins of Spirituality and Ritual Healing. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 3(4):458-489. Researchgate link.
2004 Shamanism as the Original Neurotheology. Zygon 39(1):193-217. Researchgate link.
2002 Shamanism and Cognitive Evolution. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12(1):71-101. Researchgate link.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Fulbright Visiting Professor/Researcher Award 2009
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Indigenous Religions
Science & Technology Interests
Anthropology, Human Origins, Medicine & Health, Psychology
Website
Publications
The Supernatural After the Neuro-Turn.
New York: Routledge 2019
Co-authors: Pieter Craffert, John Baker and Michael Winkelman
Editors:Pieter Craffert, John Baker and Michael Winkelman
