PDF-(BOOS)-How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others

The hard work required to make God real how it changes the people who do it and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to peopleas if they were standing right next to them Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere as the cognitive science of religion has shown But it isnt easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you In How God Becomes Real acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T M Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effortby changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible othershelps to explain the enduring power of faithDrawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians pagans magicians Zoroastrians Black Catholics Santeria initiates and newly orthodox Jews Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there Rather these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories absorption the cultivation of inner senses belief in a porous mind strong sensory experiences prayer and other practices Along the way Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book and much moreA fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spiritsbut because it changes the faithful in profound ways. 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