Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds

11. Anthropomorphism: human connection to a universal society^*

^* The lead author, Clark Gilpin, Ph.D., is the Margaret E. Burton Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Gilpin studies the cultural history of theology in England and America from the seventeenth century to the present. From 1990 to 2000, he served as Dean of the Divinity School, and from 2000 to 2004, he directed the Martin Marty Center, the Divinity School’s institute for advanced research in all fields of the academic study of religion. His current research projects include a book with the working title Alone with the Alone: Solitude ...