Genealogy of Religion

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Inviting God to Dinner — Evangelical Make Believe

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Cognition, Evolutionary Byproduct, Shamanism

Andrew Brown from The Guardian recently attended a talk by Tanya Luhrman, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford who is studying the charismatic Christian Vineyard churches in California.  Having attended similar churches in my youth, I was particularly interested in the kinds of things an ethnographer might have observed.  Brown’s report provides some context:
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