How Rituals Help Us Navigate the World — and Our Psyches — journal.burningman.org

Ritual, Dr. Tanya Luhrmann says, is the way we connect the world as it ought to be with the world as it is – and orient ourselves to it. Her anthropological work has taken Luhrmann into communities ranging from contemporary witches in England to Zorostrians in India; instructors and students studying psychiatry in America; and evangelical Christian prayer groups in the American heartland. She’s now a professor of Anthropology at Stanford, and the recipient of a Guggenheim award and the American Anthropological Association’s President’s award, among others.

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