Page |118 companion. They may be more capable Foundation 2006 (Pew, 2006, Spirit and of responding to God emotionally. Power: Ten nation survey. Pew Forum All theologies have trade-offs. oro. cligion ane te te) found that This one offers an intensely personal and ; ° , a ‘lor ciel ns ea Ons i person-like God. He can comfort, like a Ch, Pte “a ' oe Style. OL renewals friend, and respond directly, like a ceceeata ie friend. He can be like a real social > Good summaries of work on hypnosis relationship for those who make the and dissociation, with some reference to effort to experience him in this way. But absorption, can be found in Spiegel, H. because that social relationship lacks so and D. Spiegel. 2004[ 1978], Trance and many features of actual human treatment. New York: Basic Books; sociality—no visible body, no Seligman, R. and L. Kirmayer. 2008, responsive face, no spoken voice—such “Dissociative experience and cultural a theology demands a great deal of effort neuroscience.” Culture, Medicine and from those who follow it. They must Psychiatry 32(1): 31-64; and Butler, L. constantly work with their attention, 2006, “Normative dissociation.” reinterpreting the ordinary and natural Psychiatric Clinics of North America. into the presence of the extra-ordinary 29: 45-62. and super-natural. Faiths which manage +The empirical work is presented in God differently—less personal, more Luh TH. Nusb dR ‘ath dav natural world— uhrmann, T., H. Nusbaum and R. Present Jn. the everyaay ‘ ; Thisted. 2010. “The absorption make fewer demands on their followers h +39 . ; . . . ypothesis.” American Anthropologist. attentional habits. But it may be, . : . March; cf. Tellegen, A. and G. Atkinson. perhaps, that such a God may be easier 1974. “O . . ; , Openness to absorption and self to take for granted. Paradoxically, it may . . « + 99 oo . altering experiences (“absorption”), a be that this high-maintenance, effortful : . epee 99 trait related to hypnotic susceptibility. God appeal