#37 — T.M. Luhrmann | How Does God Become Real?

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Tanya Marie Luhrmann is an American psychological anthropologist known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and studies of how culture shapes psychotic, dissociative, and related experiences.

She is the author of How God Becomes Real, which asks what it means to say that a person 'believes' in gods, how and why this kind of belief is so different from mundane beliefs about the normal world, and how these gods become vividly real to some people.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Within Reason.
0:01.4	My name is Alex O'Connor.
0:03.0	Tanya Marie Lerman is an American anthropologist
0:06.4	known for her studies of modern day witches
0:09.0	and charismatic Christians.
0:10.9	She's also the author of How God Becomes Real,
0:14.0	a book about what it really means for a person to say
0:16.4	that they believe in God or supernatural agents.
0:20.1	And why these kinds of beliefs are different
0:22.2	from the mundane beliefs that we have
0:24.3	about the normal world around us.
0:26.0	And this episode of Within Reason is brought to you
0:28.2	by Bart Irman.com forward slash Alex.
0:32.0	Bart Irman is one of the world's most famous
0:34.0	New Testament scholars.
0:35.2	I recently had him on my podcast
0:36.8	and it was one of my favorite episodes to date.
0:39.0	Dr. Irman offers a wide variety of courses
0:41.4	from an agnostic perspective in the New Testament
0:44.1	with courses including Did the Resurrection of Jesus
0:47.1	really happen?
0:48.2	Did Jesus think he was God and unknown gospels,
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