On YouTube, the second lecture with Tim Maudlin was released on EPR… But for today, this one here on Substack is about how an invisible God comes to feel present to someone who prays. It is not about whether God exists.
Tanya Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford. Her fieldwork has covered ritual magicians in England, homeless and psychotic women on the streets of Chicago, and evangelical Christians who train themselves to hear God speak back. When God Talks Back was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the $100,000 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. She is currently writing a book called Voices.
We cover:
Why the college class that most disturbs a young believer’s faith often isn’t biology
Two phrases Tanya keeps separate: “is real” and “feels real”
Tanya: “I’m guessing that Sam Harris may be more committed to not being religious than many people who sit in a church pew are committed to God being real.”
Gandalf, Middle-earth, and how people hold fict…
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