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Absorption and spiritual experience: A review of evidence and potential mechanisms by Lifshitz, Michael, van Elk, Michiel, Luhrmann, T.M.

“…•The trait of ‘absorption’ captures a proclivity for having spiritual experiences.•Absorption is related to voices, visions, and feelings of presence in…”
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Hallucinations and Sensory Overrides by Luhrmann, T. M

“…Hallucinations are a vivid illustration of the way culture affects our most fundamental mental experience and the way that mind is shaped both by cultural…”
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The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity by Luhrmann, T. M., Nusbaum, Howard, Thisted, Ronald

“…In this article, we use a combination of ethnographic data and empirical methods to identify a process called "absorption," which may be involved in…”
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Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity by Luhrmann, Tanya M.

“…Contemporary U.S. religion is shaped by a new emphasis on bodily and trance experience. This article describes the learning process through which evangelical…”
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Diversity Within the Psychotic Continuum by Luhrmann, T M

“…There has been great interest in the hallucination-like events experienced by the general nonclinical population. Many psychiatric scientists have come to…”
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Anthropology as spiritual discipline by Luhrmann, T. M.

“…This essay invites us to understand ethnography not only as a science‐like comparative enterprise but also as a spiritual discipline. This is because…”
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Differences in voice-hearing experiences of people with psychosis in the USA, India and Ghana: Interview-based study by Luhrmann, T. M., Padmavati, R., Tharoor, H., Osei, A.

“…We still know little about whether and how the auditory hallucinations associated with serious psychotic disorder shift across cultural boundaries. To compare…”
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Lower resting metabolic rate in the elderly may not be entirely due to changes in body composition by Krems, C, Luhrmann, P.M, Strassburg, A, Hartmann, B, Neuhauser-Berthold, M

“…Objective: To investigate whether or not the lower resting metabolic rate (RMR) in the elderly is entirely due to changes in body composition. Design:…”
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A Hyperreal God and Modern Belief: Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind by Luhrmann, T. M.

“…This article argues that there is an epistemological style associated with much American evangelical Christianity that is strikingly different from that found…”
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Longitudinal changes in energy expenditure in an elderly German population: a 12-year follow-up by Lührmann, P M, Bender, R, Edelmann-Schäfer, B, Neuhäuser-Berthold, M

“…Background/Objectives: This study investigates age-dependent changes in different components of energy expenditure (EE) within the longitudinal study on…”
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Mind and Spirit: a comparative theory about representation of mind and the experience of spirit by Luhrmann, T.M.

“…This special issue reports the findings of the Mind and Spirit project. We ask whether different understandings of ‘mind’, broadly construed, might shape the…”
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Changes in resting metabolic rate in an elderly German population: Cross-sectional and longitudinal data by Luhrmann, P. M., Edelmann-Schafer, B., Neuhauser-Berthold, Monika

“…Background/Objectives This study investigates age-dependent changes in resting metabolic rate (RMR) considering changes in body composition and fat…”
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Culture and the plasticity of perception by Lifshitz, Michael, Luhrmann, T M

“…Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown…”
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Thinking about thinking: the mind's porosity and the presence of the gods by Luhrmann, T.M.

“…The Mind and Spirit project found that the way a social world invites its members to experience thought appears to have consequences. When the boundary between…”
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What anthropologists can learn from psychologists, and the other way around by Weisman, Kara, Luhrmann, T.M.

“…The Mind and Spirit project uses methods from anthropology and psychology to explore the way understandings of what English‐speakers call ‘the mind’ may shape…”
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Learning to Discern the Voices of Gods, Spirits, Tulpas, and the Dead by Luhrmann, Tanya M, Alderson-Day, Ben, Chen, Ann, Corlett, Philip, Deeley, Quinton, Dupuis, David, Lifshitz, Michael, Moseley, Peter, Peters, Emmanuelle, Powell, Adam, Powers, Albert

“…Abstract There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care…”
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Roy Goodwin D'Andrade (1931–2016) by Luhrmann, T. M.

“…Obituary for cultural anthropologist and founder of cognitive anthropology Roy Goodwin D'Andrade, who died on October 20, 2016 at the age of 84…”
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On finding findings by Luhrmann, T.M.

“…Where anthropology had seemed like one major among others at my undergraduate American university, at Cambridge, it seemed like a young, brash discipline which…”
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Hearing Voices in Different Cultures: A Social Kindling Hypothesis by Luhrmann, Tanya M., Padmavati, R., Tharoor, Hema, Osei, Akwasi

“…This study compares 20 subjects, in each of three different settings, with serious psychotic disorder (they meet inclusion criteria for schizophrenia) who hear…”
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The Experience of Psychosis in Psychiatric Inpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Unhoused Individuals by Lebovitz, Julia G., Luhrmann, Tanya M., AhnAllen, Christopher G.

“…This research investigates the impact of Coronavirus-2019 on individuals without housing and experiencing psychosis using semi-structured qualitative…”
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