Expert to discuss God and local 'theory' of mind
An expert on the American evangelical relationship with God will discuss her scholarly work this week on the 麻豆影院 campus.
Tanya Luhrmann
, Watkins University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University, will speak on the 鈥淟ocal 鈥楾heory鈥 of Mind and Why it Matters鈥 on Friday, Oct. 13, at 4 p.m. in Hale 230.
Luhrmann, a New York Times columnist and author of When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God, contends that people find evidence of God鈥檚 presence in mental events; that different practices of attending to mental events have identifiable consequences; and that different cultures and different theologies emphasize mind and mental process in distinctive ways.
Luhrmann will discuss the consequences for the way charismatic Christians experience God and the way those who meet criteria for schizophrenia experience psychosis in the United States, Accra and Chennai. The data suggest that one consequence of the different ways of representing mind and mental experience is that Americans have a harsher and less-spiritual experience of psychosis.
Luhrmann鈥檚 lecture is sponsored by the CU 麻豆影院 Department of Anthropology and co-sponsored by the Center for Media, Religion and Culture. For inquiries, contact carla.jones@colorado.edu.