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Christopher White (professor)

Christopher White is a professor of Religion at Vassar College and the author of several books on science, religion, spirituality and technology. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he studied science, religion and culture in modern Europe and America. He has published widely on religion and science, spirituality and “unchurched” religion, "spiritual but not religious" Americans, electronic media, and popular culture. His first book, Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance (California: University of California Press) examined how modern Europeans and 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) examined the cultural history of the idea that the universe has hidden dimensions, spaces and worlds. Other Worlds received a "best book" prize in 2019 from the International Society for Science and Religion. White is also a fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.