Yearning for God: Trance as a culturally specific practice and its implications for understanding dissociative disorders

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-129

  Luhrmann, Tanya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRISTIAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION;

EID: 4444280115     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v05n02_06     Document Type: Article

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