Dr Mark Fox is a member of Lampeter University's Religious Experience Research Centre committee, and an active member researcher into religious and paranormal experience. He currently lectures in philosophy and religious studies at Joseph Chamberlain College in Birmingham.

Introduction 1. A Brief History of NDEs 2. A 'DeafeningSilence': Theology and the NDE 3. Defining the Light: Language, Epistemology and the NDE 4. Of Plots and Minds: Neuroscience, Narrative and the NDE 5. Second Sight? NDEs and the Blind 6. The RERC Study 7. Building Bridges of Fighting Wars? Religion, Spirituality and the Future of Near Death-Studies Notes Bibliography _ _

Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death is a dramatic and sustained response to decades of research into near-death experiences (NDEs) - the first to credibly bridge the gap between the competing factions of science and spirituality.