When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God

By T. Luhrmann. 2012

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Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, background): “People refuse to believe that they’re at the mercy of a chaotic and meaningless universe, and in many ways religion assures them that this is not the case.”
The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It (2019, background): “…“baptized by the Spirit” or “slain in the Spirit” when they “feel the love” of Jesus, and then weep, get chills, place a hand on their heart, feel choked up, perhaps move ecstatically and, in some variants of this, finally collapse into torpor (Griffith, 1998; Luhrmann, 2012; Schmidt, 2001).”