Chapter-Related Readings

Ethnographic study of a religious community and its leader.

Brown, K. M.. (1991). Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California Press.

A cross-cultural study.

Child, A. B., and I. L. Child. (1993). Religion and Magic in the Lives of Traditional Peoples. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

The cultural ecology of religion, taboos, and witchcraft.

Harris, M.. (1974). Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture. New York: Vintage.

Up-to-date reader, with useful annotation.

Hicks, D., ed.. (1999). Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Essays address issues involving religion and explanation.

Horton, R.. (1993). Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Wide-ranging overview of key issues in the anthropology of religion.

Klass, M.. (1995). Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Up-to-date collection of articles.

Klass, M., and M. Weisgrau, eds.. (1999). Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion.. Boulder CO: Westview.

A comparative reader covering Western and non-Western cultures.

Lehmann, A. C., and J. E. Meyers, eds.. (2000). Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, 5th ed.. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield..

Excellent collection of major articles on the origins, functions, and expressions of religion in comparative perspective.

Lessa, W. A., and E. Z. Vogt, eds.. (1978). Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach, 4th ed.. New York: Harper & Row.

The nature, meaning, and functions of ritual in religion.

Rappaport, R. A.. (1999). Holiness and Humanity: Ritual in the Making of Religious Life.. New York: Cambridge University Press..

Liminality among the Ndembu discussed in a comparative perspective.

Turner, V. W.. (1995). (orig. 1969) The Ritual Process. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

Survey of anthropological approaches to religion.

Wallace, A. F. C.. (1966). Religion: An Anthropological View.. New York: Random House.

The story of the Handsome Lake religion.

Wallace, A. F. C.. (1970). The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca.. New York: Knopf.

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