2004: ‘Metakinesis: how God becomes intimate in contemporary US Christianity.’ American Anthropologist. 106(3): 518-528. [reprinted in Clare Boulanger, ed. Reflecting on America, in press; also in Jane Adams, ed. America's Diverse Cultures]
2007: ‘Social Defeat Social defeat and the culture of chronicity: or, why schizophrenia does so well over there and so badly here.’ Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. June. 31: 135-172.
2008: ‘The street will drive you crazy:’ why homeless psychotic women in the institutional circuit in the United States often say no to offers of help. American Journal of Psychiatry 15: 15-20; pre-printed (a mark of importance) American Journal of Psychiatry in Advance December 17 2007 p 1-6.
2009: ‘Uneasy street’ in The Insecure American, ed. Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besterman. University of California.
2010: Luhrmann, T.M., H. Nusbaum and R. Thisted. ‘The Absorption hypothesis: hearing God in evangelical Christianity.’ With Howard Nusbaum and Ronald Thisted. American Anthropologist. March. 112(1): 6-78.
2010. ‘Down and Out in Chicago.’ Raritan, Winter 2010 pp 140-166.
2011: ‘Hallucinations and sensory overrides.’ Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 40:71-85.
2012: Jocelyn Marrow and T.M. Luhrmann, ‘The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography: On the Street in the United States, inside the Family in India.’ Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 36: 493-513.
2012 : Towards an Anthropological Theory of Mind. Position papers from the Lemelson Conference. Includes introduction, individual essay and edited collection. Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Association. 36(4): 5-69.
2012: ‘Living with Voices.’ American Scholar. Summer: 49-60. [reprinted in Current—Required Reading Recommended by Leading Opinion Makers]
2012: ‘Beyond the brain.’ Wilson Quarterly. Summer: 28-34. Sidney Award for best magazine articles, awarded by David Brooks and announced in the New York Times OpEd, December 28, 2012 [reprinted in Utne Reader, and Current—Required Reading Recommended by Leading Opinion Makers]
2012: ‘A hyper-real God and modern belief: towards an anthropological theory of mind.’ Current Anthropology 53(4): 371-395.
2012: T.M. Luhrmann, and Rachel Morgain ‘Prayer as inner sense cultivation.’ Ethos. 40(4): 359-389.
2014: Julia Cassaniti and T.M. Luhrmann (joint first authors): The cultural kindling of spiritual experiences. Current Anthropology. 55(S10): S333-343. Translated and reprinted as: (2016). Die kulturelle Erweckung spiritueller Erfahrung. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 16 (1+2), pp. 81-110.
2015: Luhrmann, T.M., R. Padmavati, H. Tharoor, and A. Osei. Differences in voice-hearing associated with psychosis in Accra, Chennai and San Mateo. British Journal of Psychiatry. 206(1): 41-4. Epub. 2014 Jun 26.
2015: Jones, Nev and T.M. Luhrmann. “Beyond the sensory: Findings from an indepth analysis of the phenomenology of “auditory hallucinations” in psychosis.” Psychosis 8(3): 191-202.
2017: “Diversity within the psychotic continuum.” Schizophrenia Bulletin. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbw137 43(1): 27-31.
2018: “Prayer as metacognitive activity.” In Metacognitive diversity, ed. Martin Fortier, Joelle Proust, Oxford University Press. Pp 297-318.
2018: “The real ontological challenge.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 (1): 000–000
2018: “The Sounds of Madness” Harpers Magazine June.
2020: M. Lifshitz, J. Brahinsky, and T.M. Luhrmann. The understudied side of contemplation: Words, images and intentions in a syncretic spiritual practice. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis