Volume 36 (2017-2018): Journal of Near-Death Studies

Volume 36-1 (Fall 2017)

• Editor’s Foreword (Janice Miner Holden, EdD): doi:10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-1-p1-2.
• Impact of an Online Education Program on Counselors’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Near-Death Experiences (Saharnaz Loseu, PhD, and Janice Miner Holden, EdD): doi:10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-1-p3-26.
• Undergraduate Psychology Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Near-Death Experiences: Does Education About NDEs Make a Difference? (Natasha Tassell-Matamua, PhD, and Nicole Lindsay, BA): doi:10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-1-p27-52.
• Media Review: Near-Death Experience: What Medical Professionals Need to Know [DVD] by Roberta Moore, Producer (Reviewed by Rebecca Valla, MD): doi:10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-1-p53-55.
• Book Review: A Call from Heaven: Personal Accounts of Deathbed Visits, Angelic Visions and Crossings to the Other Side by Josie Varga (Reviewed by Linda Smith, JD, PhD, LPCC): doi:10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-1-p56-65.

Volume 36-2 (Winter 2017)

• Editor’s Foreword (Janice Miner Holden, EdD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-2-p67-68.
• Near-Death Experiences: A Critique of the Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin Physicalist Interpretation (Robert G. Mays, BSc, and Suzanne B. Mays, AA): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-2-p69-99.
• Understanding Near-Death Experiences: A Response to Mays and Mays’s Review (Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, PhD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-2-100-109.
• Understanding Near-Death Experiences: A Rejoinder to Mitchell-Yellin’s Response (Robert G. Mays, BSc, and Suzanne B. Mays, AA): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-2-p110-120.
• Book Review: Molecular Consciousness: Why the Universe Is Aware of Our Presence by Françoise Tibika (Reviewed by William D. Coffey, MPA): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2017-36-2-p121-132.

Volume 36-3 (Spring 2018)

• Editor’s Foreword (Janice Miner Holden, EdD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-3-p133-134.
• “My heart sang within me, and I was glad to be dead”: The Reception of Near-Death Experiences Across the Cultures of Oceania (Gregory Shushan, PhD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-3-p135-160.
• Distressing Near-Death Experience: An Iranian Shia Muslim Case (Alinaghi Ghasemiannejad Jahromi, PhD, and Ali Imaninasab, MA): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-3-p161-171.
• Spontaneous Mediumship Experiences Among Near-Death Experiencers: A Qualitative Study (Ryan D. Foster, PhD, Bethany M. Kahoe, BA, and Danijela H. Nardelli, BS): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-3-p172-184.
• Book Review: Near Death in the ICU: Stories from Patients Near Death and Why We Should Listen to Them by Laurin Bellg (Reviewed by Rebecca Valla, MD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-3-p185-189.

 Volume 36-4 (Summer 2018)

• Editor’s Foreword (Janice Miner Holden, EdD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-4-p191-192.
• Does Cultural Context Influence Descriptions of Change After a Near-Death Experience? Exploratory Findings From an Aotearoa New Zealand Sample (Natasha A. Tassell-Matamua, PhD; Kate L. Steadman, MA; and Karen E. Frewin, PhD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-4-p193-218.
• Brief Report: Near-Death Experience Features During Various Phases Related to Unconsciousness: An Exploratory Study of Norwegian Hospital Patients (Øystein Buer, cand.theol.; Mary Kalfoss, DrPH; Lars Weisæth, MD, PhD; Hans Stifoss-Hanssen, PhD; and Bjørn Bendz, MD, PhD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-4-p219-231.
• Book Review: Illusory Souls by Gerald M. Woerlee (Reviewed by Titus Rivas, MA, MSc): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-4-p232-239.
• Book Review: A Guided Tour of Hell: A Graphic Memoir by Samuel Bercholz (Reviewed by Nancy Evans Bush, MA): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-4-p240-245.
• Book Review: Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions by Gregory Shushan (Reviewed by James Matlock, PhD): https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2018-36-4-p246-252.