T. M. Luhrmann’s Bibliography & Achievements

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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.
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Misc. Media

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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

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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.
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Advising Culture and Mind Postdoctoral fellows Jocelyn Marrow
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Advising Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows Felicity Aulino
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Advising Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows Michael Lifschitz
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Advising Mind and Spirit Postdoctoral Fellows Rachel Smith
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