T.M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.19725Keywords:
Cognitive Science of Religion, Anthropology of Religion, Religious Experience, Comparative ReligionAbstract
T.M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020), xv + 235pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN: 9780691164465.
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