John Tresch: I’ve got a lot from your ethnographic work—I’m always recommending Of Two Minds!—but was pleasantly surprised to stumble…
Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology. She is the author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton, 2020), When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (Knopf, 2012), Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry (Knopf, 2000), and Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (Harvard, 1991).
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