Title:
T. M. Luhrmann’s Bibliography & Achievements
Date:
2026
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T. M. Luhrmann’s Bibliography & Achievements
Writings
| Category | Date | Title | Source | External URL | Internal URL |
| Books | 1989 | Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft | Harvard University Press (and Basil Blackwell). | hup.harvard.edu | |
| Books | 1996 | The Good Parsi | Harvard University Press. | hup.harvard.edu | |
| Books | 2000 | Of two minds | Alfred A. Knopf; paperback edition 2001, new subtitle: “an anthropologist looks at American psychiatry”. Vintage. | penguinrandomhouse.com | |
| Books | 2012 | When God talks back | Alfred A. Knopf | penguinrandomhouse.com | |
| Books | 2016 | Our most troubling madness | (team volume: edited with Jocelyn Marrow). University of California | ucpress.edu | |
| Books | 2020 | How God Becomes Real | [The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures]. Princeton University Press. October 27 publication. | anthropology.stanford.edu | |
| Books | Under contract (Due 2021) | Voices | Norton | ||
| Books | In process | The Anthropology of Mind | essays out of the Mind and Spirit project. | ||
| Books | In process | An Anthropological Apology | |||
| Books | In process | Comparative Christianity | |||
| Book Chapter | 1992 | The Goat and the Gazelle | Excerpted from “Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft” in Introduction to Social Anthropology | ||
| Book Chapter | 1993 | The resurgence of romanticism | Anthropology and environmentalism | academia.edu | |
| Book Chapter | 1994 | Psychological anthropology as the naturalist’s art | The making of psychological anthropology II | ||
| Book Chapter | 2000 | The traumatized social self. the Parsi predicament in modern Bombay | Cultures under siege: collective violence and trauma in interdisciplinary perspectives | ||
| Book Chapter | 2001 | Dissociation, social technology and the spiritual domain | British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain | academia.edu | |
| Book Chapter | 2005 | An anthropological view of psychiatry | Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, VIII | ||
| Book Chapter | 2005 | Witchcraft in the modern west | The Encyclopedia of Shamanism | ||
| Book Chapter | 2006 | On spirituality | Howard Gardner Under Fire: a rebel psychologist faces his critics, Chicago: Open Court. Pp. 83–110. | ||
| Book Chapter | 2006 | The Zoroastrian tradition in India | Religions of South Asia | ||
| Book Chapter | 2011 | Medication on the street | Anthropology of psychopharmacology | ||
| Book Chapter | 2013 | On William James | Mental culture: towards a cognitive science of religion | ||
| Book Chapter | 2015 | Hearing the voice of God | Strange dimensions: a para-anthropology reader | ||
| Book Chapter | 2015 | Reflections How social context shapes psychiatric symptoms | Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Cultural Neuroscience and Global Mental Health | ||
| Book Chapter | 2018 | Prayer as metacognitive activity | Metacognitive diversity | ||
| Book Chapter | 2020 | Absorption | Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion. Ed. Anne koch and Katharina Wilkens. Pg. 85–96. | bloomsburycollections.com | |
| Book Chapter | 2020 | Preface | Anthropology and Psychotherapy | ||
| Book Chapter | 11 May 2023 | God | Cambridge Handbook on the Anthropology of Ethics and Morality | cambridge.org | |
| Literary Essays | December 2010 | Down and Out in Chicago | Raritan, pp 140–166. | drive.google.com | |
| Literary Essays | June 2018 | The Sounds of Madness | Harpers Magazine | drive.google.com | |
| Literary Essays | April 2013 | Blinded by the Right? | Harper’s Magazine, Pp. 39–44. | drive.google.com | |
| Literary Essays | June 1 2012 | Living With Voices | American Scholar, 49–60. [reprinted in Current—Required Reading Recommended by Leading Opinion Makers] | theamericanscholar.org | |
| Literary Essays | June 1 2012 | Beyond the brain | Wilson Quarterly Summer: 28–34. Sidney Award for best magazine articles, awarded by David Brooks and announced in the New York Times OpEd, December 28, 2012 [reprinted in Utne Reader, and Current—Required Reading Recommended by Leading Opinion Makers] | drive.google.com | |
| Literary Essays | March 1 2022 | Voice Lessons | tanyaluhrmann.com | thetedkarchive.com | |
| Articles | Hearing Voices in Three Cultures | drive.google.com | |||
| Articles | 2008 | “The Street Will Drive You Crazy” | American Journal of Psychiatry 15: 15–20; pre-printed (a mark of importance) American Journal of Psychiatry in Advance December 17 2007 p 1–6. | drive.google.com | thetedkarchive.com |
| Articles | 2015 | Beyond the sensory | Psychosis 8(3): 191–202. | drive.google.com | |
| Articles | Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind | drive.google.com | |||
| Articles | March , 2010 | The Absorption hypothesis | American Anthropologist, 112(1): 6–78. | drive.google.com | |
| Articles | 2020 | Mind and Spirit | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | drive.google.com | |
| Articles | 2020 | Thinking about thinking | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | drive.google.com | |
| Articles | 2014 | The cultural kindling of spiritual experiences | Current Anthropology 55(S10): S333-343. Translated and reprinted as: (2016). Die kulturelle Erweckung spiritueller Erfahrung. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 16 (1+2), pp. 81–110. | drive.google.com | |
| Articles | A Hyperreal God and Modern Belief | Current Anthropology, 2012 | drive.google.com | ||
| Articles | 2018 | The real ontological challenge | Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(1), 65–78 | drive.google.com | |
| Articles | 2019 | Absorption and Spiritual Experience | Journal of Consciousness and Cognition | drive.google.com | |
| Articles | Sensing spirits across cultures and faiths | pnas.org | |||
| Articles | 2003 | University of Chicago Aims of Education Address 2003 | Chicago Record | drive.google.com | thetedkarchive.com |
| Articles | June 2020 | A life in books | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 2020 | tanyaluhrmann.com | thetedkarchive.com |
| Articles | 1984 | Popul Vuh and Lacan | Ethos 12(4):335–362. | thetedkarchive.com | |
| Articles | 1985 | Persuasive ritual | Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religiones. 60 (1): 151–170. | ||
| Articles | 1986 | An interpretation of the Fama Fraternitatis with respect to Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica | Ambix (Journal for the Society for the History of Chemistry and Alchemy). 33(1):110. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 1986 | Witchcraft, morality and magic in contemporary England | International Journal of Moral and Social Studies. l(l):77–94. | ||
| Articles | 1991 | Invited response to review essay of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft | Journal of Ritual Studies. 5(2):128. | ||
| Articles | 1994 | The Good Parsi | Man 29(2):333357. | ||
| Articles | 1998 | Partial failure | Psychoanalytic Quarterly 68(3): 449473. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 1999 | Speak of the Devil | Contemporary Sociology (republished in Social Anthropology, 2000) | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2001 | The Ugly Goddess | History of Religions 41(2): 114–141. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2002 | Evil in the Sands of Time | Journal of Asian Studies, 61(3): 861–889. | academia.edu | thetedkarchive.com |
| Articles | 2004 | Metakinesis | American Anthropologist, 106(3): 518–528. [reprinted in Clare Boulanger, ed. Reflecting on America, in press; also in Jane Adams, ed. America’s Diverse Cultures] | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2004 | Yearning for God | Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 5(2): 101–129. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2005 | The art of hearing God | Spiritus: a Journal of Christian Spirituality 5(2): 133–157. [pre-printed as the John Nuveen lecture ‘Trauma, trance and God: how the new style in American religion might be changing the psychiatric symptoms of trauma.’ Criterion Spring 2004: 2–12.] | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2006 | Ryerson Lecture | Chicago Record | ||
| Articles | 2006 | Subjectivity | Anthropological Theory 6(3): 345–361 (September). | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2007 | How do you know that it is God who talks? | Berliner and Sarros, Learning Religion. [preprinted on WebForum, Martin Marty Center, the University of Chicago, spring 2006] | ||
| Articles | 2009 | Uneasy street | The Insecure American, ed. Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besterman. University of California. | ||
| Articles | 2010 | “Did I push myself over the edge?” | Psychosis | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2010 | Making God Real | Invisible forces and Unseen Powers, edited J. Cacioppo, authorship Templeton Social Brain Network, FT (Pearson) Press. | ||
| Articles | 2010 | The problem of proclivity | Emotions in the Field, eds. James Davies and Dimitrina Spencer. Stanford University Press. Preprinted in The Vision Thing, workshop proceedings, Collegium Budapest. | ||
| Articles | 2011 | Hallucinations and sensory overrides | Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 40:71–85. | ||
| Articles | 2012 | A hyper-real God and modern belief | Current Anthropology 53(4): 371–395. | ||
| Articles | 2012 | Encountering the supernatural | Religion and Society, 2: 37–53. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2012 | The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 36: 493–513. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2012 | Touching the divine | Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 41(2): 136–150. | ||
| Articles | 2012 | Towards an Anthropological Theory of Mind | Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Association. 36(4): 5–69. | ||
| Articles | 2013 | Knowing God, attentional learning and the local theory of mind | Religion, Brain and Behavior, 4(1): 78–90. | ||
| Articles | 2013 | Lord, teach us to pray | Culture and Cognition, 13: 159–177. | ||
| Articles | 2013 | Response | Spiritus, 13(1): 137–140. | ||
| Articles | 2013 | Some mechanisms through which prayer may contribute to healing | Transcultural Psychiatry, 50(5): 707–725. | ||
| Articles | 2013 | What an ecological approach can teach us | Ritual, Brain and Behavior, 4(2): 159–61. | ||
| Articles | 2013 | What anthropology should learn from G.E.R. Lloyd | Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(1): 171–173. | ||
| Articles | 2014 | Culture and Hallucinations | Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40 (Suppl 4): S213-S220 | doi.org | |
| Articles | 2014 | Talking about When God Talks Back | Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3(3): 389–98 | ||
| Articles | 2014 | Talking to God in Accra | Pastoral Psychology 63: 229–234. | ||
| Articles | 2015 | Thick Description | James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 24. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 291–293. | ||
| Articles | 2015 | Voice-hearing in different cultures | TopiCS in Cognitive Science. | ||
| Articles | 2016 | Did I push myself over the edge? | Psychosis | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2016 | L’Experience Spirituelle chez les Evangelistes Americains | Terrain 66 Renaitre Automne pp 86–105. In English: terrain.revues.org. | ||
| Articles | 2016 | Providing culturally competent care | Psychiatric Times October 31. Reprinted on front page December 7. | ||
| Articles | 2016 | Understanding the work of faith | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 34(2), Autumn 2016: 147–149. | ||
| Articles | 2017 | Constructing belief through narrative engagement | Religion: Narrating Religion. Part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2017. | ||
| Articles | 2017 | Diversity within the psychotic continuum | Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43(1): 27–31. | doi.org | |
| Articles | 2017 | Knowing God | Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, special issue, Morten Pederson, ed. Volume 35 Number 2, Autumn 2017: 125–142 | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2017 | Roy D’Andrade, Obituary | American Anthropologist (119): 779–787 | ||
| Articles | 2017 | The Zoroastrian tradition in India | Religions of South Asia (revised) ed. S. Mittal and G.R. Thursby. London: Routledge. | ||
| Articles | 2018 | Cognitive insight and objective quality of life in people with schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations | Psychiatry Research 259: 223–228. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2018 | The Faith Frame | Journal of Contemporary Pragmatism | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2019 | Beyond Trauma | Schizophrenia Bulletin | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2019 | Understanding the cultural context | Neurological Bulletin LI (4): 5–10. | ||
| Articles | 2020 | The understudied side of contemplation | International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis | ||
| Articles | 2021 | Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | anthropology.stanford.edu | |
| Articles | 2021 | Sexual Shaming and Violent Commands in Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia Bulletin | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2021 | Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures | anthropology.stanford.edu | thetedkarchive.com | |
| Articles | 2022 | Porosity Is the Heart of Religion | Current Directions in Psychological Science | academia.edu | |
| Articles | 2023 | Hearing voices among Russian patients with schizophrenia. | anthropology.stanford.edu | ||
| Articles | 2023 | Voice hearing as a social barometer | anthropology.stanford.edu | ||
| Articles | 2024 | Prayer and Perceptual (and Other) Experiences. | anthropology.stanford.edu | ||
| Articles | 2025 | Shifting Between Models of Mind | anthropology.stanford.edu | ||
| Articles | September 1989 | The Magic of Secrecy | Ethos, 17(2):131–166. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | November 1990 | Our Master, Our Brother | Cultural Anthropology, 5(4): 396413. | academia.edu | thetedkarchive.com |
| Articles | June, 2007 | Social Defeat Social defeat and the culture of chronicity | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 31: 135–172. | ||
| Articles | Nov 2, 2012 | Prayer as inner sense cultivation | Ethos, 40(4): 359–389. | academia.edu | |
| Articles | April 2013 | Ethnographic Workshop: Narrating Perspectives | Society for Psychological Anthropology, Biennial Conference, April 2013, San Diego, CA | academia.edu | |
| Articles | Jun 26 2014 | Differences in voice-hearing associated with psychosis in Accra, Chennai and San Mateo | British Journal of Psychiatry. 206(1): 41–4. Epub. | ||
| Articles | October 2016 | Reprint of Down and Out in Chicago | Anthropology of Our Century | ||
| Articles | Nov 29, 2023 | The Shaman and Schizophrenia, Revisited | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | academia.edu | |
| Articles | Dec 5, 2023 | Anthropology as spiritual discipline | American Ethnologist | academia.edu | |
| Articles | Accepted | Interviewing | Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, Routledge | ||
| Articles | Accepted | On Findings | The Anthropology of Explanation. Conference Proceedings Collection. | ||
| Articles | Summer 1990 | Review article of Ritual healing in suburban America by M. McGuire | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry., 14:133–8. | ||
| Articles | Abstracts & Reviews | Transcultural Psychiatry, 1995 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Amazon Healer | Anthropology of Consciousness, 1993 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Book Forum on The Anti-Witch | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Book Review: Modes of Religiosity | Journal of Religion, 2006 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Book Review: Never again the Burning Times | Journal of Anthropological Research, 1996 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Building on William James | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Culture and PTSD | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | culture and the problem of proclivity Emotion in the Field(pdfvisionversion) | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Differences in voice-hearing experiences of people with psychosis in the USA, India and Ghana | British Journal of Psychiatry, 2015 | academia.edu | thetedkarchive.com | |
| Articles | Diversity in the Psychotic Continuum | Schizophrenia Bulletin | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Faith in Anthropology | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2016 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | God as the Ground of Empathy | Anthropology Today, 2000 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Hearing Voices in Different Cultures | Topics in Cognitive Science, 2015 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Hidden in Plain Sight | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | How Do You Learn to Know That It is God Who Speaks? | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Kindling God | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Learning Religion At The Vineyard | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Learning to Discern the Voices of Gods, Spirits, Tulpas, and the Dead | Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2023 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Luhrmann Weisman et al SUPPLEMENT December 2020 | PNAS, 2021 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | magic of secrecy | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Making God real and making God good | Transcultural psychiatry, 2013 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Mind | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2021 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | New Age and Neopagan Religions in America | History of Religions, 2008 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Reliving, Replaying Lived Experiences Through Auditory Verbal Hallucinations | Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Roy Goodwin D’Andrade: In Memoriam | obituary | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Social defeat and the culture of chronicity | Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, 2007 | academia.edu | thetedkarchive.com | |
| Articles | Spiritual Curiosity Project: Absorption, Porosity, and Spiritual Experiences | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Spiritual Curiosity Project: Supernatural Causal Reasoning Study | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Spiritual Curiosity Surveys | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Spiritual epidemiology | academia.edu | |||
| Articles | Steps Toward a Neurophenomenology of Speaking in Tongues | Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 20, 2024 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Symposium on Alan Wolfe’s “One Nation, after All” One Nation, after All Alan Wolfe | Sociological Perspectives, 1999 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Talking back about When God talks back | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2013 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | The Blood Libel Legend | American Anthropologist, 1993 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | The Empire of Trauma | American Journal of Psychiatry, 2010 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | The Protest Psychosis | American Journal of Psychiatry, 2010 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Things That Go Bump | New York Times Book Review, 1999 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | To Believe Is Not to Think | Open Mind, 2021 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Weisman and Luhrmann “What anthropologists can learn from psychology and the other way around” JRAI | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | When Spirit Calls | Schizophrenia bulletin open, Dec 31, 2022 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Wildness, Mindfulness, and the Phenomenology of Voice-Hearing in Thailand | Schizophrenia Bulletin | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Women and Borderline Personality Disorder | American Journal of Sociology, 2002 | academia.edu | ||
| Articles | Words, Images, and Intentions in a Syncretic Spiritual Practice | International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2020 | academia.edu | ||
| Commentary | 1999 | Commentary on Alan Wolfe’s One nation after all | Sociological perspectives, 42(l). | ||
| Commentary | 2001 | Commentary on ‘Missionary positions’ | Current Anthropology, 42(l):5556. | ||
| Commentary | 2001 | Commentary on ‘Towards an anthropology of managed care’ | Culture, medicine and psychiatry. | ||
| Commentary | 2016 | Jeanne Favret-Saada, The Anti-Witch | Somatosphere. | somatosphere.net | |
| In memorium | 1985 | Audrey Richards: In memorium | Cambridge Anthropology. Special editor; testimonial; bibliography. | ||
| Letter | March 22, 2001 | Letter | New England Journal of Medicine | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | 2001 | Review of A. Phillips Promises, Promises | The New York Observer. | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | 2015 | Review of Jeanne Favret-Saada, The Anti-Witch | Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 25, 1990 | Review of J. Boddy Wombs and Alien Spirits | New York Times Book Review | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | February 28, 1992 | Review of F.A. Wolf The Eagle’s Quest | The Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | November 24, 1996 | Review of S. Ortner Making Gender | New York Times Book Review | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 7, 1997 | Witches, magic and ordinary folk | U.S. News and World Report (Cover article) | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 29, 1997 | Review of D. Deacon Elsie Clews Parsons | New York Time Book Reviews | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 13, 1998 | Oped piece | San Diego Union Tribune | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 14, 1999 | Review of M. Warner No go the bogeyman | New York Times. Book Review | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 19, 2000 | Review of R. Hutton, The triumph of the moon | Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | January 7, 2001 | Review of G. Hornstein To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: the life of Frieda FrommReichmann | The New York Times Book Review | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | January 12, 2001 | Review essay of C. Geertz, Available Light; S. Ortner The Fate of ‘Culture;’ F. Inglis, Clifford Geertz. ‘Returning the Gaze’ | The Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | January 21, 2001 | Review of J. Richards Angles of Reflection | New York Times Book Review | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | February 23, 2001 | Review of J. Hazelgrove, Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars M. Jakobsen, Shamanism | The Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 25, 2001 | A Perfect Test Case. Review of N. Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder | New York Times Book Review (cover) | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 21 2001 | Team care is a better way for the mentally ill | Los Angeles Times Oped piece, by request | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | January 25, 2002 | Review of M. Newton Savage Girls and Wild Boys: a history of feral children | Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 17, 2002 | Review of R. Whitaker Mad in America | Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | February 3, 2003 | Review of A. LeBlanc Random Family | New York Observer | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 30, 2004 | Learning from Prozac | Science Times, New York Times | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | June 1, 2004 | Drugs send the wrong message | Los Angeles Times | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | November 11, 2005 | Review of R. Webster The Secret of Bryn Estyn | Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 30, 2010 | What students can teach us about iphones | Salon | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | August 19, 2010 | Learning Magic | Clarion | clarionfoundation.wordpress.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | October 14, 2010 | Inner Sense Cultivation | Clarion | clarionfoundation.wordpress.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | December 2, 2010 | Do You Beleve in Magic? | Clarion | clarionfoundation.wordpress.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | January 27, 2011 | The Poetry of Madness | Clarion | clarionfoundation.wordpress.com | thetedkarchive.com |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 3, 2011 | The Next David Koresh | Clarion | clarionfoundation.wordpress.com | thetedkarchive.com |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 14, 2011 | Thought as Stuff | Clarion | clarionfoundation.wordpress.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 27, 2012 | When God Talks Back | Huffington Post | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 2 2012 | When God Becomes a Therapist | Psychology Today | psychologytoday.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 6, 2012 | When the Almighty Talks Back | Wall Street Journal | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 20 2012 | Magic and the Mind | Psychology Today | psychologytoday.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 6, 2012 | Do as I do, not as I say | New York Times | campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 12 2012 | Prayer Failure | Psychology Today | psychologytoday.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | June 12, 2012 | Why women hear God more than men do | Christianity Today | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | June 12 2012 | Thought as Substance | Psychology Today | psychologytoday.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | November 14 2012 | Air Dense With Words | Psychology Today | psychologytoday.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | December 7 2012 | Fantastic Visions | American Scholar Winter. Pp 111–12. | theamericanscholar.org | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Dec 13, 2012 | Hark! The Herald Angels Didn’t Sing | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | December 16 2012 | Imagining God | Psychology Today | psychologytoday.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | December 30, 2012 | If you can hear God speak audibly, you (usually) aren’t crazy | CNN Belief Blog | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | December 30 2012 | If you hear God speak audibly, you (usually) aren’t crazy | Psychology Today | psychologytoday.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | January 13, 2013 | Talking to God | Daily Beast | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 5, 2013 | How skeptics and believers can connect | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 13, 2013 | When God is your therapist | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 20, 2013 | The Benefits of Church | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 1, 2013 | Is that God talking? | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 29, 2013 | Belief is the least part of faith | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | June 25, 2013 | C. S. Lewis, Evangelical Rock Star | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | July 8, 2013 | The witch is alive | Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | 12 July 2013 | Review of M. Sahlins Culture in Practice and A. Kuper “Culture | Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Aug 3, 2013 | Addicted to prayer | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | August 18, 2013 | Why We Talk in Tongues | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Sep 19, 2013 | The violence in our heads | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Oct 14, 2013 | Conjuring up our own gods | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Oct 30, 2013 | In the Presence of All Souls | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Dec 28, 2013 | When Demons are Real | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Feb 22, 2014 | Audiobooks and the Return of Storytelling | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 24, 2014 | Is the World More Depressed? | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 18, 2014 | Saving Minds along with souls | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 13, 2014 | To Dream in Different Cultures | New York Times | nytimes.com | thetedkarchive.com |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 31, 2014 | Our Flinching State of Mind | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | June 20, 2014 | Candy’s Dandy, but Pot’s Scary | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | July 27, 2014 | Where Reason Ends and Faith Begins | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Sep 5, 2014 | Can’t Place That Smell? You Must Be American | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | September 8, 2014 | How cultures shapes our senses | New York Times | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Oct 29, 2014 | Ghosts Are Back! | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Dec 3, 2014 | Wheat People vs. Rice People | New York Times | nytimes.com | thetedkarchive.com |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Dec 24, 2014 | Religion without God | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Jan 17, 2015 | Redefining mental illness | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 5, 2015 | When things happen that you can’t explain | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | April 18, 2015 | Faith vs. Facts | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 25, 2015 | How places let us feel the past | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | July 4, 2015 | The Appeal of Christian Piety | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | July 18, 2015 | The Anxious Americans | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | September 7 2015 | Anyone Home? | American Scholar | theamericanscholar.org | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | Nov 6, 2015 | Where Homeless meets Crazy | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | September 6 2016 | Healing the Masses | American Scholar | theamericanscholar.org | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | February 2018 | Forum | Harpers Magazine | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | September 3 2019 | Head Cases | American Scholar | theamericanscholar.org | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | March 13, 2020 | Review of The Slow Moon Climbs, by Susan Mattern | The Times Literary Supplement | ||
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | September 23 2020 | Varieties of Experience | American Scholar | theamericanscholar.org | thetedkarchive.com |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | January 25 2021 | God, Can You Hear Me? | American Scholar | theamericanscholar.org | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | May 20, 2021 | What We Believe About Prophecies | New York Times | nytimes.com | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | June 1 2022 | A Voice From Beyond | American Scholar | theamericanscholar.org | |
| OpEds (short pieces and reviews in the popular media) | September 1, 2014 | Making Room for Faith | Comment Magazine: Public Theology for the Common Good | ||
| Reference Work | 2 Oct 2021 | Mind | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology | www.anthroencyclopedia.com | |
| Professional reviews | 1991 | Review of P. Stoller The Taste of Ethnographic Things | Man, June 26(2): 374–375. | ||
| Professional reviews | 1992 | Review of L. Siegel The Net of Magic | Journal of Ritual Studies Winter 6(I): 193–4. | ||
| Professional reviews | 1994 | Review of A. Dundes (ed.) The blood libel legend: a casebook in antisemitic folklore | Man, 29 (2): 483–4. | ||
| Professional reviews | 1994 | Review of H. Nutini and J. Roberts Bloodsucking witchcraft: an epistemological study of anthropomorphic supernaturalism in rural Tlaxcala | Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 31:311–313 | ||
| Professional reviews | 1994 | Review of R. Horton Patterns of thought in Africa and the West | Man, 29(4): 101718. | ||
| Professional reviews | 1995 | Review of H. Stein American Medicine as Culture | Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review. 32(4): 435437. | ||
| Professional reviews | 1996 | Review of L. Orion Never Again the Burning Times and A. Scarboro, N. Campbell and S. Stave. Living Witchcraft | Journal of Anthropological Research, 52(2): 2257. | ||
| Professional reviews | 1996 | Review of L. Rosen (ed.) Other Intentions | American Anthropologist, 98(3): 6745. | ||
| Professional reviews | 1996 | Review of V. Das Critical Events: an anthropological Perspective on contemporary India | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute( incorporating Man), 2(2): 381–2 | ||
| Professional reviews | 2002 | Review of Janet Wirth-Cauchon Women and borderline personality: symptoms and stories | American Journal of Sociology, 108: 259–61. | ||
| Professional reviews | 2009 | Review of Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity | Journal of Religion | ||
| Professional reviews | 2009 | Review of Sarah Pike | New Age Neopagan Religions in America. History of Religions | ||
| Professional reviews | 2010 | Immanent Frame, discussion of Webb Keane | Christian Moderns. | ||
| Professional reviews | 2010 | Review of Dider Fassin and Richard Rechtman | Empire of Trauma, American Journal of Psychiatry. | ||
| Professional reviews | 2010 | Review of Jonathan Metzl | Protest Psychosis, American Journal of Psychiatry. | ||
| Professional reviews | 2011 | Review of Henrietta Moore, The Subject of Anthropology | American Ethnologist | ||
| Professional reviews | 2013 | Review of Bettina Schmidt and Lucy Huskinson | Spirit possession and Trance. Numen. | ||
| Professional reviews | 2013 | Review of Jason Throop | Suffering and Sentiment. American Ethnologist. | ||
| Professional reviews | 2015 | Book Review: How Forests Think | How Forests Think, American Anthropologist. | academia.edu | thetedkarchive.com |
| Professional reviews | 2015 | Review of Eviator Zerubavel | Hidden in Plain Sight: the Social Structure of Irrelevance, American Journal of Psychiatry | ||
| Professional reviews | 2015 | Review of Jurg Wassman, Birgit Trauble and Joachim Funke (eds) Theory of Mind in the Pacific | Anthropological Forum | ||
| Professional reviews | 2015 | Review of Thomas Larsen, The Slain God | AnthroCyBib.com blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk 2015/09/28/the-slain-god-book-review/ | ||
| Professional reviews | June 8, 1987 | Review of I.M. Lewis. Religion in context: cults and charisma | American Anthropologist, 9(2): 47–78. | ||
| Professional reviews | September 1991 | Review of S.J. Tambiah Magic, science, religion and the scope of rationality | Man, 26(3): 579–80. | ||
| Professional reviews | September 1993 | Review of M. Dobkin de Rios Amazon Healer: the life and times of an urban shaman | Man, 18(3): 621. | ||
| Professional reviews | December 1993 | Review of V. Crapanzano Hermes’ dilemma and Hamlets desire: on the epistemology of interpretation | American Anthropologist, 25(4): 105–89. | ||
| Reference Work | 1992 | Entries on magic | Who’s Who of Religions Macmillan Reference Books. | ||
| Reference Work | 1998 | Entries on ‘magic’, ‘cults’, ‘trance’, ‘sorcery’ & ‘witchcraft’ | The Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology | ||
| Reference Work | 2001 | Identity in anthropology | The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences | ||
| Reference Work | 2001 | Thick description | The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences | ||
| Reference Work | 2006 | Anthropology | The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, ed. R. Golden. | ||
| Replies | 2021 | Reply to Terhune and Jamieson | anthropology.stanford.edu |
Misc. Media
| Category | Sub-Category | Title | Source | External URL | Internal URL |
| Video & Audio | Live Interview | Secret Friends | npr.org | ||
| Video & Audio | Talk | When God Talks Back | TedX Stanford | youtube.com | |
| Video & Audio | Talk | ‘When God Talks Back’ To The Evangelical Community | Fresh Air | npr.org | |
| Video & Audio | Talk | Learning to know God | vimeo.com | ||
| Video & Audio | Talk | Magic and the Mind | Cambridge University | drive.google.com | |
| Other people’s writing | Conferences Writup | Anthropology and the Paranormal | academia.edu | ||
| Other people’s writing | Reviews | Book Review: Of two minds | Psychiatric Services, Jan 1, 2001 | academia.edu | |
| Other people’s writing | Reviews | Book Review: Persuasions of the witch’s craft | academia.edu | ||
| Other people’s writing | Reviews | Book Review: Of Two Minds | Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 2000 | academia.edu | |
| Other people’s writing | Reviews | Book Review: Our Most Troubling Madness | American Journal of Psychiatry, 2017 | academia.edu | |
| Other people’s writing | Reviews | Book Review: When God Talks Back | academia.edu | ||
| Other people’s writing | Reviews | Book Review: When God Talks Back | Al-Albab, 2012 | academia.edu | |
| Other people’s writing | Profiles | Hearing the Voice of God | Stanford Magazine | stanfordmag.org | |
| Other people’s writing | Profiles | Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture, Stanford anthropologist says | news.stanford.edu | thetedkarchive.com | |
| Interview | Written Interview | An interview with Tanya Luhrmann | ALIUS Bulletin n°1 (2017), pages 25–36. ENS/EHESS, Paris, France. <doi.org/10.34700/7ppf-h459> | aliusresearch.org | thetedkarchive.com |
| Interview | Written Interview | Interview with Tanya Luhrmann | Finnish Journal of Social Anthropology, 2018 | academia.edu | thetedkarchive.com |
Achievements
| Category | Sub-Category | Subject | External URL |
| Appointments held | Stanford University | 2010: named Howard and Jessie Watkins University Professor. | |
| Appointments held | Stanford University | 2007-present: Professor of Anthropology (and Psychology, by courtesy). Courses taught: Culture and Madness; Research Methods in Anthropology; Ethnographic Writing; Anthropology of Religion; Belief; Other Minds; and others. | |
| Appointments held | University of Chicago | 2000–2007. Department of Comparative Human Development; Committee on the History of Culture, member; Department of Anthropology, Associate; Committee on South Asian Studies (Chair, 2004–7); University of Chicago Press Board (member, 2004–7); Institutional Review Board (member, 2004–7). Codirector of the Clinical Ethnography program. | |
| Appointments held | University of Chicago | 2004: appointed Max Palevsky Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development | |
| Appointments held | University of California. San Diego | 1989–2000: Full professor since 1998. Academic Senate appointments: Privilege and Tenure, 19958, Chair, | |
| Appointments held | University of California. San Diego | 1997–8; Universitywide Privilege and Tenure 19978, Chair 1998–9 | |
| Appointments held | University of California. San Diego | Trustee, UC Foundation, The University of California, San Diego 1999–2000 | |
| Appointments held | University of Cambridge | 1985–9: Research Fellow, Christ’s College. Four year tenure. | |
| Education | University of Cambridge | 1982: M.Phil. in social anthropology. | |
| Education | University of Cambridge | 1986: Ph.D. in social anthropology. Thesis title: ‘Scions of Prospero: Ritual magic and witchcraft in present day England’. Supervisors: S.P. HughJones, E.Gellner. Examiners: J. Skorupski, G. Lewis. | |
| Education | Harvard University | 1981: B.A. summa cum laude in Folklore and Mythology. Phi Beta Kappa, Iota chapter (early election). | |
| Awards/responsibilities | 1981: The Lionel deJersey Scholarship (John Harvard Fellowship) Emmanuel College | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1981–5: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. (Not 834) | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1983–4: Fieldwork support from the WennerGren Foundation for Anthropological Research; the Wyse Fund; the Richards Fund | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1987–8: Fieldwork support from the Nuffield Foundation; the British Academy; the Rotary Foundation 1989: Elected to the Society of Fellows, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University Declined. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1990: Fulbright Senior Research award for research in India. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1992: National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship. Two terms of release time for research on ‘the ethnography of psychiatry. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1992: WennerGren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Funding in support of ‘the ethnography of psychiatry’ | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1992: NIMH Grant R03 MH5000201 for ‘the ethnography of psychiatry’ | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1994–5: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1996–8: National Science Foundation, panelist for grant reviews | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 1999: Executive Program Committee, American Anthropological Association | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2000–3: Board member, Society for the Anthropology or Religion | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2001–7: Ad hoc NIH panelist, Services Research | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2001–8, 2012-on: series editor, the Ethnography of Subjectivity, University of California Press. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2001–6: Editorial Board, Culture, medicine and psychiatry | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2001–6: Editorial Board, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association (incorporating Man). | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2003: Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2003: Aims of Education address, University of Chicago | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2004: Program Chair, American Anthropological Association | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2004: American Anthropologist President’s Award | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2004: John Nuveen lecture, the Divinity School, University of Chicago | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2004: NIH grant ‘Models of illness’. R34 MH090441 | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2006: Lewis Henry Morgan lectures, Rochester University. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2006: Edward Ryerson lecture, University of College: faculty-invited distinguished lecture to entire campus. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2007: John Templeton Foundation grant, ‘Spiritual Disciplines and their Sensory Consequences’ | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2007: Distinguished Lecture, Frontiers of Science Series, American Psychiatric Association | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2007–8: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2007–8: Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2007–9: President, Society for Psychological Anthropology | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2008–11: Editorial Board, American Ethnologist | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2009: Participating fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2009–11: National Science Foundation grant: Kataphatic Prayer Practice BCS-0924145 | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2011: Lemelson Conference in Psychological Anthropology: Towards an Anthropological Theory of Mind (competitively awarded conference) | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2012: Keynote address, UCLA-UCSD Culture and Mind conference | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2012–4: New Directions in the Study of Prayer, Social Science Research Council: grantee | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2013-: Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2013-: Editorial Board, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2013: Foerster lecture, University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2013: Ensign lecture, Yale University | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2014: Peter Berger lecture, Boston University | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2014: William James lecture, Harvard University | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2014-present: Stanford Spiritual Phenomena series at Stanford University Press. Series editor with Ann Taves. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2014–6: Contributing Op-Ed columnist, New York Times 31 columns topics.nytimes.com opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/tmluhrmann/index.html 2015: Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2015–2016: Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2015: Ida Bean Visiting Professor, University of Iowa | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2015: Carter-Chalk lecture at the College of Idaho | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2015: The Keith Morton Memorial Lecture, California State University Northridge. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2015: TEDx Talk, Stanford, “When God Talks Back” | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2016: The first (reinaugrated) W.H.R. Rivers Lecture, University of Cambridge | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2016: Fuller Theological Seminary: Fuller Symposium on the Integration of Psychology and Theology 2016: John Templeton Foundation award, “Spiritual curiosity and the experience of God.” 2.9 million. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2016: Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professorship, University of British Columbia. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2016: The Boardman lecture, University of Pennsylvania. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2016: Public Intellectual Symposium, Southern Methodist University. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2017: The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series, Editorial Board | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2017: Election as Fellow, Cognitive Science Society | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2018: Editorial board, Religion, Brain and Behavior | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2018: The Castelfranco Lecture, University of California at Davis | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2018: The Willis Wood lecture, Amherst College | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2018: The Stirling lecture, University of Kent | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: The Witherspoon Lecture, University of North Carolina. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: The Lak and Li Lecture, University of Nevada | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human Development, Keynote lecture. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: Advisory Board, Building the Alister Hardy Archive 2. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: Winchester lecture (Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lecture) Oxford University | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: Mind and Life Faculty, Summer Research Institute | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: Anthropology of Mind series at the University of California Press. Series editor with Joel Robbins. | ||
| Awards/responsibilities | 2019: Visiting Professor Lecture, Charles University, Prague 2019: Faculty, Stanford Program in Florence | ||
| Book prizes | 2001 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing: for Of two minds | ||
| Book prizes | 2001 Bryce Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology: for Of two minds | ||
| Book prizes | 2001 Gradiva Award from the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis: for Of two minds 2012 When God Talks Back selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. | ||
| Book prizes | 2012: When God Talks Back selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year | ||
| Book prizes | 2013: When God Talks Back Religion Newswriters Award for Best Book of the year (tied for first place) 2014: When God Talks Back Division 36 of APA (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) Bier Award. | ||
| Book prizes | 2014: When God Talks Back: Grawemeyer Award (best book in religion, University of Louisville, $100,00 prize) Essay Prizes: | ||
| Book prizes | 1981: the Bowdoin Prize (field: Harvard undergraduates). Harvard award established c. 1800’s for essay of highest merit. Title: ‘Popul Vuh: an analysis of a Mayan myth’. | ||
| Book prizes | 1983: the Emanuel Miller Prize (field: Cambridge University members). For an essay on the philosophy of the social sciences. Title: ‘Our master, our brother: LeviStrauss’ debt to Rousseau.’ | ||
| Book prizes | 1985: the Partington Prize (field: international): triennial award by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry for an essay within that subject. Title: ‘An interpretation of the Fama Fraternitatis with respect to Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica.’ | ||
| Book prizes | 1986: the Stirling Prize (field: members of the American Anthropological Association). For an essay in psychological anthropology. Title: ‘The Magic of Secrecy.’ | ||
| Book prizes | 2012: Sydney Award (field: all published essays in America). Awarded by David Brooks for one of the best big-picture essays of the year. For an essay in the Wilson Quarterly. Title: “Beyond the brain.” | ||
| Book prizes | 2016: Best Research Award, Intervoice: World Hearing Voices Congress. Luhrmann, R. Padmavati, H. Tharoor, and A. Osei. Differences in voice-hearing associated with psychosis in Accra, Chennai and San Mateo. British Journal of Psychiatry | ||
| Book prizes | 2018: The Sounds of Madness submitted by Harpers to the National Magazine Awards in the Feature Writing category. | ||
| Advising | Causal beliefs about depression in different cultural groups | academia.edu | |
| Advising | Culture and Mind Postdoctoral fellows | Jocelyn Marrow | |
| Advising | Culture and Mind Postdoctoral fellows | Julia Cassaniti Nev Jones | |
| Advising | Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows | Felicity Aulino | |
| Advising | Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows | Joshua Brahinsky John Dulin | |
| Advising | Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows | Michael Lifschitz | |
| Advising | Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows | Emily Ng | |
| Advising | Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows | Rachel Smith | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Stanford University | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Damien Droney | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Johanna Bard Richlin | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Giulia Mazza | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Yeon Jung Yu | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Robert Rollings | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Hantian Zhang | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Aisha Ghani | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Amrapali Maitra | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Alexa Hagerty | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Cordelia Erikson-Davis | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Nancy Chu | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Ciara Wirth | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | University of Chicago | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Johanne Eliacin | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Amy Sousa | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Suzanne Pelka | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Stephanie Sosa | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Guy Fricano | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Deanna Barenboim | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Elizabeth Nickrenz | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Neely Laurenzo Myers | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Matthew Bird | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Amy Cooper | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Christine Nutter | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | University of California San Diego | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Rebecca Lester Cage Hall | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Thomas Brown Jason James | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Andrew Brown | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Julia Offen | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Bambi Chapin | |
| Advising | PhD students: committee chair or co-chair (partial list) | Ashidara Das |