the first two links i provided was from a peer reviewed journal as follows:

http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/toc/About.html

i try not to post links to journal articles that require institutional or individual subscription as i don't think the majority of people on the boards have institutional or individual subscription access.

i'm still waiting on a reference for your claim. don't get me wrong, there is a lot of research out there and i'm fairly sure you can find a study from somewhere to support your claim...

you will note i changed the topic rather from benefit to the individual to benefit to society.

i also don't see why psychiatry / psychology journals should be given priority over other journals such as religious studies journals or sociological journals. i would have thought an inter-disciplinary approach would have been better...

on the relationship between TLE and religiousity (see for example):

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cg...stract/9/3/498
http://www.springerlink.com/content/ktx4026123vnp222/

http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.co...t&backto=issue,8,11;journal,17,18;linkingpublicationresults,1:104609,1
http://www.springerlink.com/content/w54q13592vk33038/
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x85247k73330nhp2/