How God Becomes Real : : Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others / / T.M. Luhrmann.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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