Kate Stockly

Dr. Kate Stockly has a PhD in the scientific study of religion and is a part-time lecturer in Boston University's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She is also assisting with a course at Harvard University this fall and is a fellow at the Center for Mind and Culture in Boston, where she's currently embarking on a project to study the religion experiences of Covid-19 patients. She is co-author of a book called High on God, which explores the powerful emotional dynamics driving American megachurches.

Kate’s book is Spirit Tech: The Brave New World of Consciousness Hacking and Engineering Enlightenment (co-authored with Dr. Wesley J. Wildman) looks at how brain-based technologies are being applied by spiritual seekers to set in motion a new, post-secular wave of spirituality in the United States.