Books
Forthcoming October 2012. The Burning Saints: Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria, London: Equinox.
Forthcoming. With William McCorkle (eds.), Mental Culture: Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion, London: Equinox.
2004. with Panayotis Pachis (eds.), Collected Essays on the Study of Religion, Thessaloniki: Vanias. (Greek title: Γρηγόριος Ζιάκας, Θρησκειολογικά Μελετήματα).
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
2011. D. Xygalatas, I. Konvalinka, A. Roepstorff, and J. Bulbulia. “Quantifying collective effervescence: Heart-rate dynamics at a fire-walking ritual”, Communicative & Integrative Biology 4 (6).2011. I. Konvalinka, D. Xygalatas, J. Bulbulia, U. Schjødt, E-M. Jegindø, S. Wallot, G. Van Orden, and A. Roepstorff. “Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2011. D. Xygalatas. “Ethnography, Historiography, and the Making of History in the Tradition of the Anastenaria”, History and Anthropology 22 (1): 57-74.
2010. D. Xygalatas. “Review of N. Christakis and J. Fowler (2009), Connected: The Surprising Power of our Social Networks and How they Shape our Lives, Little, Brown and Company”, Journal of Cognition and Culture 10: 401-403.
Chapters in Volumes
Forthcoming. “Anastenaria”, in: N. Azari (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, Springer Verlag.Forthcoming. “Fire-walking”, in: N. Azari (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, Springer Verlag.
In press 2010. “Fire-walking in the Balkans: High Arousal Rituals and Memory”, in: I. Czachesz and T. Bíró (eds.), Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition through the Ages, Groningen Studies in Cultural Change Series, Leuven: Peeters.
2010. “Can the Study of Religion be Scientific?”, in: D. Wiebe and P. Pachis (eds.), Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences. Essays in Honour of Luther H. Martin, Thessaloniki: Barbounakis, pp. 531-549.
2010 (with Olympia Panayotidou). “From Object to Human: Archaeology, Cognitive Science, and the Evolution of the Mind”, preface to the Greek Translation of Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind (Greek title: Η Προϊστορία του Νου, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας), pp. 7-18.
2008. “Fire-walking and the Brain: The Physiology of High-Arousal Rituals”, in: J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, R. Genet, C. Genet, and K. Wyman (eds.) Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press, pp. 189-195.
2008. “Reductionism and the Scientific Study of Religion”, preface to the Greek Translation of Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained (Greek title: Και ο Άνθρωπος Έπλασε τους Θεούς, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας), pp. 9-25.
2007. “The Flying Spaghetti Monster and Religious Fundamentalism”, preface to the Greek translation of: Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell (Greek Title: Απομυθοποίηση, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας), pp. 7-13.
2006. “Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion”, preface to the Greek Translation of Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity (Greek title: Τύποι Θρησκευτικότητας, Θεσσαλονίκη: Βάνιας), pp. 9-92.