Hi to all,
slighty off-topic, but perhaps of interest.
Best,
Roberto
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/04/02/120402crbo_books_acocella
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Books
Seeing and Believing
Experiences with evangelical congregations.
by Joan Acocella April 2, 2012
[...]
Given these figures, skeptics would do well to find out what is going
on in evangelical churches, and that is what T. M. Luhrmann tries to
explain in her new book, “When God Talks Back: Understanding the
American Evangelical Relationship with God” (Knopf). Luhrmann is a
well-qualified guide: an anthropologist specializing in esoteric
faiths. Her dissertation was on witch-and-warlock cults in
contemporary England. Later, she wrote a book on the Parsis, a
Zoroastrian community in India. Her most recent book was the highly
praised “Of Two Minds,” a study of psychiatric residents and their
handling of patients who had visions, among other problems. Almost
always, Luhrmann has written with sympathy, not scorn, for these
convinced people.
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