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How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people — as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn't easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion Tanya M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real. Does this effort help explain the enduring power of faith? Shermer and Luhrmann discuss: the anthropology of religion • what it means when people say they “hear the voice of God” or are “walking with God” • normal “voices within” vs. hallucinations and psychoses • mystical experiences • anomalous psychological experiences • sleep paralysis and other cognitive anomalies • belief in angels and demons • absorption and religious beliefs • prayer vs. meditation vs. mindfulness • sensed presences • why people believe in God • empirical truths, religious truths, mythic truths • how people come to religious belief vs. how they leave religion • theodicy • magic and superstition • witches and witchcraft • shamans and shamanism. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor at Stanford University, where she teaches anthropology and psychology. Her books include When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God and How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others. She has written for the New York Times, and her work has been featured in the New Yorker and other magazines. She lives in Stanford, California.

In this episode, Dr. Tanya Lurhmann joins Chris and Cara to discuss her life's work as an "anthropologist of the human relationship with invisible others". Dr. Lurhmann is the Watkins University Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. She is the author of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. To learn more about Dr. Lurhmann, send her an email at luhrmann@stanford.edu, or check out her personal website at http://luhrmann.net/. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens Theresa Gildner, Email: Theresa.E.Gildner@dartmouth.edu, Twitter: @TEGildner

On this episode, we discuss the recent Christianity Today editorial calling for the impeachment and removal from office of the President as well as the rebuttal editorial from 200 evangelical preachers in The Christian Post. We also look into the claim by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes that the group distributed almost two hundred thousand bibles in 2019.   Patrons got a version of this episode with additional content and were able to download it one day early. Go to https://www.patreon.com/GodlessHeathens to sign up as a patron for a little as $1 a month.   Links:   Christianity Today: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html   Christian Post: https://www.christianpost.com/news/nearly-200-evangelical-leaders-slam-christianity-today-for-questioning-their-christian-witness.html   FCA: https://www.christianpost.com/news/fellowship-of-christian-athletes-distributed-over-190000-bibles-in-2019.html   Recommendations:   Jerry's Recommendation: https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065   Jeff's Recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/When-God-Talks-Back-Understanding/dp/0307277275   Email - Godlessheathens@yahoo.com Twitter - @godlesspodcast Facebook Discussion Group - https://www.facebook.com/228801104333716 Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GodlessHeathens - Any help is greatly appreciated  

On this episode we discuss a recent Washington Post article about a rift among the husband of Pete Buttigieg and his brothers along political and religious lines. We also talk about Kanye's recent visit with Joel Osteen at his Mega Church in Houston, Tx. Don't worry, we wander off the trail here and there enough to make it interesting.   Links:   Mayor Pete: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rift-in-chasten-buttigiegs-family-mirrors-americas-divides-are-you-willing-to-surrender-to-god/2019/11/12/3e059504-974b-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html   Kanye & Joel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/11/19/how-kanye-west-put-joel-osteens-prosperity-gospel-back-under-spotlight/   Recommendations:   Jerry's Recommendation: https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast   Jeff's Recommendation: https://americanfreethought.libsyn.com/ https://www.amazon.com/When-God-Talks-Back-Understanding/dp/0307277275   Don's Recommendation: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily https://www.lookhuman.com/design/364117-all-my-friends-are-godless-heathens-and-here-i-am-trying-to-do-the-lord-s-work/3600-black-md   Email - Godlessheathens@yahoo.com Twitter - @godlesspodcast Facebook Discussion Group - https://www.facebook.com/228801104333716 Patreon - https://www.patreon.comGodlessHeathens - Any help is greatly appreciated

Philosopher Myron Penner (Trinity Western University) helps Dan think through some interesting but complicated and challenging findings from cognitive science (the study of the mind, not the study of the brain -- that's called neuroscience) and what they mean for our understanding of religions beliefs, behaviors and experiences. By explaining religious belief from a cognitive perspective, how does cognitive science of religion not *explain away* religion altogether? Does cognitive science of religion present evidence for God, for atheism, or neither? - “When God Talks Back” - https://smile.amazon.com/When-God-Talks-Back-Understanding/dp/0307277275/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia?keywords=when+god+talks+back&pd_rd_i=0307277275&pd_rd_r=eda4ec56-9673-42b7-bdb8-d6faeaa93daa&pd_rd_w=jfc0X&pd_rd_wg=PM7eF&pf_rd_p=a5491838-6a74-484e-8787-eb44c8f3b7ff&pf_rd_r=GA0N6HXQHCG8MZNJ3RE6&psc=1&qid=1571604451 - Citizens - “Fear” (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/album/0abL7FZysjxpaxEPURpBsl - theopsych.com - Fuller Seminary initiative Edited by Laura Kondourajian Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch YHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: youhavepermissionpod.com Join Dan's email list: dankochwords.com Artwork by http://sprungle.co/

Listen to author, Professor Tanya Luhrmann describe her book, ‘When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God’ for the Book Salon 2013-2014 season. (9/1/2013)