Live Breaking News & Updates on How God Becomes Real
Stay updated with breaking news from How god becomes real. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
How a conspiracy theory becomes 'real' cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Women Who Wear Only Themselves: A Brilliant Tale Of Carving A Spiritual Path outlookindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outlookindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
256p $29.95 Luhrmann, an anthropologist at Stanford University, has produced a serious work of anthropological research, yet its conversational tone and fascinating anecdotes will hold the attention of even nonspecialists, especially those troubled by the elusiveness of an intimate relationship with God. This group would seem to include many Catholics, given Pope Francis’ need to insist recently in “Christus Vivit” that “Christ is alive! We need to keep reminding ourselves of this.” Luhrmann’s book reveals that this difficulty is not unique to Catholics, but rather one they share with evangelical Christians, magicians, Zoroastrians, santeros, orthodox Jews and other religious persons. The book’s central claim is that it takes sustained effort to believe and act as if gods and spirits are real, and so they must be ....
The Irish novelist and essayist Anne Enright s contributions to the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books offer, to my mind, some of the best writing about religion in recent years sympathetic but skeptical, alive at once to the poignancy and cruelty of the thirst for supernatural transcendence (and to the comedy, too). Born-again in her youth but long since fallen off the path, Enright is clear-eyed but not condescending about the oppressive cultural politics religious orthodoxies can give rise to. Her 2018 LRB essay on Genesis (the book, not the band) was a twisty meditation on the shapes of myth and the gender of sin. It should have won a prize. ....