User:Charles D. Laughlin
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Charles D. Laughlin, Ph.D. is an emeritus professor of anthropology and religion in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He took his Ph.D. degree in anthropology at the University of Oregon in 1972. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among the So people of Northeastern Uganda, among Tibetan lamas in India and Nepal, among Chinese Buddhist communities in Southeast Asia, and among the Navajo people of the American Southwest. He has written extensively on topics pertaining to the brain, culture, religion and consciousness. His particular specialty has been the study of religious ritual from a neuroanthropological perspective (see his website).
