Tongues of Fire: How Charismatic Prayer Changes Evangelical Brains and Inspires Spirit-Filled Activism

Josh Brahinsky is a researcher at Stanford University in Religious Studies, McGill University in Transcultural Psychiatry, and a Teaching Faculty at UC Santa Cruz. He links anthropological, psychological and neuroscientific methods to explore the ways people self-induce powerful changes in our brains, minds and behavior. He studies prayer and meditation, with the last 20 years focused especially on the worship practices of charismatic evangelicals.