Christopher White

Christopher White teaches and writes about religion, spirituality, science, technology and media in the U.S. during the last century.  He has published articles on these subjects in edited books and scholarly journals, including articles in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion and the American Historical Review. His first book, Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance (University of California Press) examined how Americans used psychological and medical insights to fashion new, more scientific ways of testing, analyzing and sometimes even fostering religious trances, visions and experiences. His second book, Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions (Harvard University Press), won a “best book” prize in science and religion from the International Society for Science and Religion. Other Worlds examined the cultural history of the idea that the universe has hidden dimensions, spaces and worlds. He also has co-edited a book on new developments in metaphysical and New Age America (The Future of Metaphysical Religion). He currently works on two book projects—one on contemporary supernatural media and the other on the emergence in the last century of planetary forms of consciousness, social organization and spiritual identity.