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The hard work required to make god real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cogniti...
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Luhrmann, T.M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut How God Becomes Real : Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others / T.M. Luhrmann. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (256 p.) : 3 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 The Faith Frame -- 2 Making Paracosms -- 3 Talent and Training -- 4 How the Mind Matters -- 5 Evidence for the Way Gods and Spirits Respond -- 6 Why Prayer Works -- 7 A God Who Responds -- Acknowledgments -- General Notes on Methods -- Bibliographic Essays and Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The hard work required to make god real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith.Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more.A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Faith. RELIGION / Spirituality. bisacsh Good Parsi. Of Two Minds. Our Most Troubling Madness. Persuasion of the Witch’s Craft. anthropology of mind. anthropology of religion. ethnography. feeling the presence of god. how prayer works. psychological anthropologist. psychological anthropology. psychology of prayer. psychology of religious experience. psychology of seeing god. understanding religious experience. understanding religious practice. what happens to religious worshippers. why prayer works. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2020 English 9783110704778 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2020 9783110704570 ZDB-23-DGF Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110690088 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691211985?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691211985 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691211985/original |
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