Mind and Spirit: A Comparative Theory

ISBN-13: 9781119712886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str.

Tanya Marie Luhrmann

Spis treści

Notes on contributors 1. Mind and Spirit: a comparative theory about representation of mind and the experience of spirit (T.M. Luhrmann) 2. From karma to sin: a kaleidoscopic theory of mind and Christian experience in northern Thailand (Felicity Aulino) 3. Crossing the buffer: ontological anxiety among US evangelicals and an anthropological theory of mind (Joshua Brahinsky) 4. Vulnerable minds, bodily thoughts, and sensory spirits: local theory of mind and spiritual experience in Ghana (John Dulin) 5. Adwenhoasem: an Akan theory of mind (Vivian Afi Dzokoto) 6. The mind and the Devil: porosity and discernment in two Chinese charismatic-style churches (Emily Ng) 7. Empowered imagination and mental vulnerability: local theory of mind and spiritual experience in Vanuatu (Rachel E. Smith) 8. What anthropologists can learn from psychologists, and the other way around (Kara Weisman and T.M. Luhrmann) 9. Thinking about thinking: the mind's porosity and the presence of the gods (T.M. Luhrmann) Index

O autorze

T.M. Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor at Stanford University, in the Stanford Anthropology Department (and Psychology, by courtesy). Her work focuses on local theory of mind and the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural, and the world of psychosis. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007.