Tanya Marie Luhrmann

Third Annual Peter L. Berger Lecture
in the Sociology and Anthropology of Religion

Sponsored by the Boston University School of Theology, the Department of Sociology, and the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs

Watkins University Professor in Anthropology at Stanford University

Why God talks back so loudly now: anthropological reflections on the American charismatic evangelical experience of belief

Wednesday, February 12 @ 5pm
School of Theology B-19

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her books include Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, (Harvard, 1989); The Good Parsi (Harvard 1996); Of Two Minds (Knopf 2000) and When God Talks Back (Knopf 2012). In general, her work focuses on the way that ideas about the mind affect mental experience. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. In April 2014 she will receive the Grawemeyer Prize in Religion for When God Talks Back.

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