Prof. Dr. Pieter F. Craffert

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsCognitive and Systemic Human Neuroscience,Ethnology, European Ethnology,Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
KeywordsWestern Cape, non-ordinary experiences, humanistic anthropology, consciousness, neuroscience of consciousness

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityHeidelberg
InstitutionRuprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
InstituteKlinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gerd TheißenWissenschaftlich-Theologisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas FuchsKlinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/1999

Program(s)

1998Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2023Craffert, PF: Your Brain Makes You Do It: A Critical Reflection on the Libetian Denial of Free Will. In: Religion & Theology, 30, 2023, 124-153
2019Craffert, PF: The Supernatural: A Range of Neurocultural Phenomena. In: Craffert, PF, Baker, JR and Winkelman, MJ (eds) The Supernatural After the Neuro-Turn. London: Routledge., 2019. 12-28
2019Craffert, PF: Embodied Experiences and the Neurobiological, Cognitive and Psychological Production of Ghosts. In: Craffert, PF, Baker, JR and Winkelman, MJ (eds) The Supernatural After the Neuro-Turn. London: Routledge., 2019. 107-126
2019Craffert, PF: Making Sense of Near-Death Experience Research: Circumstance Specific Alterations of Consciousness. In: Anthropology of Consciousness, 30, 2019, 64-89
2019Craffert, PF, Baker, J R and M J Winkelman (eds): The Supernatural After the Neuro-Turn. London: Routledge., 2019
2019Craffert, PF: Towards a Post-Colonial Reflection on Shaman and Shamanism as Conceptual Tools in Biblical Studies. In: Religion & Theology, 26, 2019, 1-41
2008Pieter F. Craffert: The Life of a Galilean Shaman: Jesus of Nazareth in Anthropological-Historical Perspective. . Cascade Books, 2008
2007Pieter F. Craffert: Neutestamentliche Forschung nach der Revolution in den Neurowissenschaften: Ungewoenliche menschliche Erfahrungen ins Bewuststsein rufen. In: Theissen G Van Gemuenden P, Erkennen und Erleben: Beitrage zur psychologischen Erforschung des fruehen Christentums . Gutersloh Verlag, 2007. 91-117