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Tanya Luhrmann

Anthropology

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#85

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#21

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Cultural Anthropology

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#55

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#23

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According to Wikipedia, Tanya Marie Luhrmann is an American psychological anthropologist known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and studies of how culture shapes psychotic, dissociative, and related experiences. She has also studied culture and morality, and the training of psychiatrists. She is Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University. Luhrmann was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

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Tanya Luhrmann's Published Works

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When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (2012) (494)
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England. (1990) (267)
Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity (2004) (178)
Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry (2000) (162)
Social defeat and the culture of chronicity: or, why schizophrenia does so well over there and so badly here (2007) (148)
Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions (2014) (145)
Differences in voice-hearing experiences of people with psychosis in the U.S.A., India and Ghana: interview-based study. (2015) (139)
The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity (2010) (136)
The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society. (1998) (91)
Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry (2001) (89)
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic and Witchcraft in Present-day England (1992) (81)
The Cultural Kindling of Spiritual Experiences (2014) (81)
Hallucinations and Sensory Overrides (2011) (71)
"The street will drive you crazy": why homeless psychotic women in the institutional circuit in the United States often say no to offers of help. (2008) (69)
The Art of Hearing God: Absorption, Dissociation, and Contemporary American Spirituality (2006) (64)
The Magic of Secrecy (1989) (60)
WHEN GOD TALKS BACK. UNDERSTANDING THE AMERICAN ENGANGELICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. ALFRED A KNOPF, NEW YORK. (2012) (60)
Hearing Voices in Different Cultures: A Social Kindling Hypothesis (2015) (60)
The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India (2012) (58)
Absorption and spiritual experience: A review of evidence and potential mechanisms (2019) (54)
Prayer as Inner Sense Cultivation: An Attentional Learning Theory of Spiritual Experience (2012) (52)
A Hyperreal God and Modern Belief (2012) (50)
Beyond Trauma: A Multiple Pathways Approach to Auditory Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Populations (2019) (48)
TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY OF MIND OVERVIEW (45)
Kinship, Contract, and Trust (2000) (41)
Making God real and making God good: Some mechanisms through which prayer may contribute to healing (2013) (41)
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood (2010) (40)
Reliving, Replaying Lived Experiences Through Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: Implications on Theories and Management (2018) (39)
Diversity Within the Psychotic Continuum. (2017) (36)
Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths (2021) (36)
Beyond the sensory: Findings from an in-depth analysis of the phenomenology of “auditory hallucinations” in schizophrenia (2016) (33)
Encountering the Supernatural: A Phenomenological Account of Mind (2011) (30)
“Lord, Teach Us to Pray”: Prayer Practice Affects Cognitive Processing (2013) (27)
Our Most Troubling Madness : Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures (2016) (27)
“Did I push myself over the edge?”: Complications of agency in psychosis onset and development (2016) (25)
The good Parsi: the postcolonial feminization' of a colonial elite (1994) (21)
The real ontological challenge (2018) (21)
Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures (2020) (17)
New Age and Neopagan Religions in America (2008) (17)
Identity in Anthropology (2001) (15)
Mind and Spirit: a comparative theory about representation of mind and the experience of spirit (2020) (13)
Our Master, Our Brother: Lévi‐Strauss's Debt to Rousseau (1990) (13)
Yearning for God: Trance as a Culturally Specific Practice and Its Implications for Understanding Dissociative Disorders (2004) (12)
Cognitive insight and objective quality of life in people with schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations (2018) (12)
The resurgence of romanticism: contemporary neopaganism, feminist spirituality and the divinity of nature (2003) (12)
The Faith Frame: Or, Belief is Easy, Faith is Hard (2018) (11)
The Ugly Goddess: Reflections on the Role of Violent Images in Religious Experience (2001) (10)
How God Becomes Real (2020) (9)
Building on William James: the role of learning in religious experience (2016) (8)
Touching the Divine: Recent Research on Neo-Paganism and Neo-Shamanism (2012) (8)
Subjectivity (1988) (8)
Thick Description: Methodology (2001) (8)
Thinking about thinking: the mind's porosity and the presence of the gods (2020) (8)
Evil in the sands of time: Theology and identity politics among the Zoroastrian Parsis (2002) (8)
When God Talks Back : Understanding the American Evangelical Experience of God (2016) (7)
Partial failure: the attempt to deal with uncertainty in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in anthropology. (1998) (6)
To Believe Is Not to Think: A Cross-Cultural Finding (2021) (6)
What anthropologists can learn from psychologists, and the other way around (2020) (5)
God as the Ground of Empathy (2000) (5)
Persuasive Ritual : the Role of the Imagination in occult Witchcraft / Les Rites de persuasion : le rôle de l'imagination dans la magie noire (1985) (4)
The sense of presence: lessons from virtual reality (2021) (3)
I didn't do it (2005) (3)
Faith in Anthropology: A Symposium on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God (2016) (3)
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 288 pp. (2015) (3)
Reply to Terhune and Jamieson: The nature of absorption (2021) (2)
GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation. Vincent Crapanzano. (1993) (2)
Knowing God, attentional learning, and the local theory of mind (2014) (2)
An interpretation of the Fama Fraternitatis with respect to Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica. (1986) (2)
Sexual Shaming and Violent Commands in Schizophrenia: Cultural Differences in Distressing Voices in India and the United States (2021) (2)
Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective. Devon Hinton and Byron Good, eds., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 440 pp. (2017) (2)
The Understudied Side of Contemplation: Words, Images, and Intentions in a Syncretic Spiritual Practice (2020) (2)
The anthropology of mind Exploring unusual sensations and spiritual experiences across cultures An interview with (2017) (2)
What anthropology should learn from G. E. R. Lloyd (2013) (1)
Popul Vuh and Lacan (1984) (1)
On finding findings (2020) (1)
Interview Methods (2021) (1)
Antidemocracy in America (2019) (1)
On the need fOr new Criteria Of diagnOsis (2013) (1)
Percepts and Concepts Across Cultures (2018) (1)
Prayer as a metacognitive activity (2018) (1)
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion (2022) (1)
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (2010) (1)
Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories. By Janet Wirth‐Cauchon. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Pp. x+235. $52.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). (2002) (1)
Other Intentions: Cultural Contexts and the Attributions of Inner States. Lawrence Rosen, ed (1996) (1)
Indian Zoroastrian Traditions (2017) (1)
Interview with Tanya Luhrmann (2018) (1)
What an ecological approach can teach us (2014) (0)
Matter Over Mind (2001) (0)
Kindling God: How People Experience the Divine "Lecture 1: The Faith Frame" (2016) (0)
Evangelical Voters (2019) (0)
9. What Counts as Data? (2020) (0)
Hearing Voices in San Mateo, Accra and Chennai The Anthropology Department Fall 2012 Colloquia Series (2012) (0)
The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, Inside the Family in India (2012) (0)
Anthropology and Autobiography: Two Accounts of the 1989 ASA Conference at York (1989) (0)
Understanding the cultural context: experiences of auditory vocal hallucinations among patients from different language groups (2019) (0)
10. The Culture of the Institutional Circuit in the United States (2019) (0)
Providing Culturally Competent Care: Understanding the Context of Psychosis (2016) (0)
Magical Mystery Tour (1989) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
Learning to Discern the Voices of Gods, Spirits, Tulpas, and the Dead. (2023) (0)
Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap C. Jason Throop. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 352 pp. (2013) (0)
Big comparison (2022) (0)
T.M. Luhrmann and the Anthropologist's Craft: Differential Identity and the Ethnography of Britain's Magical Sub-Culture@@@Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (1991) (0)
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevanceby Eviatar Zerubavel. New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, 216 pp., $24.95 (paperback). (2016) (0)
"Think" and "believe" across cultures: A shared folk distinction between two cognitive attitudes in the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu (2020) (0)
Roy Goodwin D'Andrade (1931–2016) (2017) (0)
Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Reflections: Hearing Voices – How Social Context Shapes Psychiatric Symptoms (2015) (0)
Religion in Context: Cults and Charisma. J. M. Lewis (1987) (0)
Things That Go Bump (1999) (0)
Kindling God: How People Experience the Divine "Lecture 2: What Kind of Skill?" (2016) (0)
Bettina E. Schmidt and Lucy Huskinson (2014) (0)
The voices of madness (2022) (0)
New Age and Neopagan Religions in America. By Sarah Pike. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+220. $35.00. (2008) (0)
Culture and the plasticity of perception (2020) (0)
1. “I’m Schizophrenic!”: How Diagnosis Can Change Identity in the United States (2019) (0)
Kindling God. Spiritual Experience among American Evangelicals (2016) (0)
Never again the Burning Times: Paganism Revived. Loretta OrionLiving Witchcraft: A Contemporary American Coven. Allen Scarboro , Nancy Campbell , Shirley Stave (1996) (0)
Speak of the Devil. Tales of satanic abuse in contemporary England. BY J. S. LA FONTAINE . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 235 pp. Pb.: £15.95. ISBN 0 521 62934 9. (2000) (0)
Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary American Christianity (2017) (0)
Abstracts & Reviews : American Medicine as Culture by Howard F. Stein.1993. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Paper: $21.95 US, ISBN 0-8133-1910-2,281 pages (1995) (0)
Kindling God: How People Experience the Divine "Lecture 3: Local Theory of Mind" (2016) (0)
Harvey Whitehouse, .Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Cognitive Science of Religion Series. New York: AltaMira, 2004. xiii+191 pp. $24.95 (paper). (2006) (0)
Giving the question away (2017) (0)
Coding (2021) (0)
Dissociation, Social Technology and the Spiritual Domain (2020) (0)
Experience of psychosis during the COVID-19 pandemic among hospitalized patients (2022) (0)
Spiritual Curiosity Project: Absorption, Porosity, and Spiritual Experiences (2018) (0)
Symposium Response: Talking to God in Accra (2014) (0)
The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism, and Psychoanalysis by Henrietta Moore (2011) (0)
Calendar of Events (1967) (0)
The puzzles that remain (2022) (0)
Theory of Mind in the Pacific: Reasoning Across Cultures, edited by Jürg Wassmann, Birgit Träuble and Joachim Funke (2015) (0)
Symposium Response: Talking to God in Accra (2013) (0)
Beyond the Brain In the 1990 s , scientists declared that schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses were pure brain disorders that would eventually yield to drugs (2012) (0)

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Persuasions of the Witch's Craft