Very interesting. Thanks for this!
Best,
Gerhard
Am 28.03.2012 10:40, schrieb Roberto Labanti:
> 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
>
> ///
> 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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