When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (Vintage) - Softcover

Luhrmann, T M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307277275 ISBN 13: 9780307277275

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012

A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists.

Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people--from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society--can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.

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About the Author

Tanya Luhrmann is a psychological anthropologist and a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She received her education from Harvard and Cambridge universities, and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0307277275
• ISBN 13: 9780307277275
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 464