In Living Religion, James Jones has once again offered us an interdisciplinary inquiry that is richly informative, arguing clearly and convincingly that psychology of religion should make religious practices the central subject of study, rather than beliefs or theological propositions taken apart from context and community. With a new emphasis on 'embodied cognition', Jones draws multiple strands of religious studies, philosophy, and psychology into
fruitful dialogue, resulting not only in an impressively detailed argument, but a methodology too rarely seen and much to be emulated.
James W. Jones is Distinguished Professor of the Psychology of Religion, Emeritus, at Rutgers University. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous professional papers, and the editor of several volumes of collected papers dealing with religion, psychology, and science. He serves on the editorial boards of several publications. He is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church USA and has maintained a private practice of clinical psychology,
specializing in psychophysiology and behavioral medicine.