T.M. Luhrmann
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is a psychological anthropologist and professor at Stanford University.
She has studied modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and psychiatrists, exploring how people come to believe in and experience supernatural or culturally-specific phenomena.
Luhrmann's work examines the intersection of cognition, culture, and individual experience.
Her books include Persuasions of the Witch's Craft, The Good Parsi, and Of Two Minds.
When God Talks Back, her fourth book, investigates evangelical Christianity and prayer practices.
Luhrmann has received numerous awards and fellowships for her research, which combines ethnographic fieldwork with psychological analysis to understand how people develop and maintain belief systems.
