Tanya M. Luhrmann

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Tanya Marie Luhrmann (* 1959 ) is an American ethnologist who works in psychological ethnology. She holds a Watkins Chair at Stanford University .

Career

Luhrmann received his PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge in 1986 . In 1998 she became a full professor at the University of California, San Diego . She moved to the University of Chicago in 2000 , and then to Stanford in 2007.

In 2003 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She was awarded a Guggenheim Scholarship in 2007 and the Grawemeyer Award for Religion in 2014.

research

For her dissertation, she took part in a London witches' circle as a participating observer . A study of the feelings that your students developed for their smartphones was also widely received in German-speaking countries.

The prayer and worship practices of charismatic evangelical  Christians are a focus of her work. In preparation for her book When God talks back , she spent four years as a participant observer in Vineyard churches in Chicago  and Palo Alto . She saw parishioners purposefully train them to pray. While using this prayer technique, some parishioners reported hearing God's voice. Some experienced benign hallucinations , which Luhrmann also calls "sensory overreaction". Luhrmann herself had a sensory overreaction during her field research with the witches. In psychology one speaks here of absorption .

While Persuasions of the witch's craft left the trained witches with feelings of hurt , Luhrmann was a welcome guest among the Vineyard Christians even after the publication of When God talks back .

Luhrmann also deals with the voices that schizophrenics hear. Whether these voices are evil or benign depends heavily on the culture in question.

Works (selection)

  • Persuasions of the witch's craft . Ritual magic and witchcraft in present-day England. B. Blackwell, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-631-15197-4 .
  • The good Parsi . The fate of a colonial elite in a postcolonial society. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 1996, ISBN 0-674-35675-6 .
  • Of two minds . The growing disorder in American psychiatry. Knopf, New York 2000, ISBN 0-679-42191-2 .
  • When God talks back . Understanding the American evangelical relationship with God. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-307-26479-4 .
  • TM Luhrmann, Jocelyn Marrow (Ed.): Our most troubling madness . Case studies in schizophrenia across cultures. University of California Press, Oakland, CA 2016, ISBN 978-0-520-29108-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monique Scheer: Believe from the heart . Performances of Righteousness in Protestant Churches. In: Anja Schöne, Helmut Groschwitz (Ed.): Religiosity and Spirituality . Questions, competencies, results. Waxmann, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-3061-7 , pp. 111–130 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 23, 2016]).
  2. ^ Luhrmann, Tanya Marie. Stanford University , Department of Anthropology, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  3. ^ Tanya Marie Luhrmann: Scions of Prospero . Ritual magic and witchcraft in present day England. Dissertation, University of Cambridge 1986 ( catalog entry in Cambridge University Library ).
  4. ^ Curriculum Vitae: Tanya Marie Luhrmann. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Stanford University, Department of Anthropology, archived from the original on June 21, 2015 ; accessed on April 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.stanford.edu
  5. ^ List of active members by class. (PDF) American Academy of Arts and Sciences, accessed April 23, 2016 (Section III.5).
  6. ^ Tanya Marie Luhrmann. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  7. ^ Tanya Luhrmann Wins Grawemeyer Religion Prize. Grawemeyer Awards, December 5, 2013, accessed April 24, 2016 .
  8. ^ A b Isabel Laack: Religion and Music in Glastonbury . A case study on current forms of religious identity discourses (=  Critical Studies in Religion / Religious Studies . Volume 1 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-54011-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on April 23, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Victoria Hegner: Where witches witch . The neo-pagan witch religion and places of its practice in Berlin. In: Anja Schöne, Helmut Groschwitz (Ed.): Religiosity and Spirituality . Questions, competencies, results. Waxmann, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-3061-7 , pp. 321–338 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 23, 2016]).
  10. ^ Tanya Luhrmann: What students can teach us about iPhones. My anthropology class studied the gadget's use on campus and uncovered anxiety, addiction and gushing love. Salon , May 30, 2010, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Sebastian Matthes: Telephone in bed . In: WirtschaftsWoche . No. 24 . Department: Technology & Knowledge, June 14, 2010, p. 78 ( Access authorization required [accessed April 22, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Ulli Pesch: Between Overload and Addiction . In: Personalmagazin . No. 8 , 2011, p. 40-42 .
  13. ↑ p. 137 in Jochen Mai, Daniel Rettig: I think, so I'm crazy . Why we often behave differently than we want. dtv, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-34763-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 23, 2016]).
  14. ↑ P. 83 in Peter L. Berger: Altaren der Moderne . Religion in pluralistic societies. Campus, Frankfurt (Main) 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50342-4 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed April 23, 2016]).
  15. ↑ p. 306 in Florian Sprenger: Divisions of the Individual . Talk to yourself at the end of time. In: Michael Andreas, Natascha Frankenberg (ed.): In the network of uniqueness . Indefinite figures and the irritation of identity. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2196-9 , p. 291–313 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 23, 2016]).
  16. ^ Klaus Wilhelm: Voices out of the blue . Some speak to birds, others to God - hallucinations don't always have to be a sign of mental illness. In: Sunday newspaper . Department: Knowledge, September 2, 2012, p. 67 ( Access authorization required [accessed April 22, 2016]).
  17. ↑ Susanne Mauthner-Weber: How the Lord spreads out in the mind and heart . Belief and science. Brain researchers, psychologists, sociologists and even evolutionary researchers are searching for traces of God in people. And find hormones, hallucinations and highly contagious masses. In: Courier . Department: Sunday, December 23, 2012, p. 4 .
  18. ↑ p. 191 in TM Luhrmann: When God talks back . Understanding the American evangelical relationship with God. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-307-26479-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 23, 2016]).
  19. ↑ Pages 144–147 in Anne Koch, Karin Meissner: Imagination, Suggestion and Trance . Suggestion research and the aesthetics of religion on healing. In: Lucia Traut, Annette Wilke (Ed.): Religion - Imagination - Aesthetics . Worlds of imagination and senses in religion and culture. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-54031-2 , p. 131–154 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 23, 2016]).
  20. ^ Jill Wolfson, Hearing the Voice of God. Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann studies how American evangelicals experience the friend they have in Jesus. Stanford alumni, 2012, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Julia Merlot: Aggressive in the USA, divine in Africa . What schizophrenics hear in their head depends on the culture in which they live. In the western world the voices are usually menacing and evil, in India and Africa friendly to divine. In: Spiegel Online . July 27, 2014 ( online [accessed April 23, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Luhrmann, Tanya M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luhrmann, Tanya Marie; Luhrmann, TM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychological ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959