* Indicates New Reading Foreword by James W. Fernandez Preface 1. The Anthropological Study of Religion
Clifford Geertz, Religion
Marvin Harris, Why We Became Religious and The Evolution of the Spirit World
Dorothy Lee, Religious Perspectives in Anthropology
*Stephan Jay Gould, Non-Conflicting Magesteria
*Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Darwin's Rib
*Claude E. Stipe, Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions
Lauriston Sharp, Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians 2. Myth, Symbolism, and Taboo
*Scott Leonard ad Michael McClure, The Study of Mythology
Raymond Firth, An Anthropologist's Reflections on Symbolic Usage
Mary Douglas, Taboo
*Mary Lee Daugherty, Serpent-Handling as Sacrament
*Jack Santino, Yellow Ribbons and Seasonal Flags: The Folk Assemblage of War 3. Ritual
Victor W. Turner, Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage
Daniel Gordon, Female Circumcision in Egypt and Sudan: A Controversial Rite of Passage
*Elizabeth G. Harrison, I Can Only Move My Feet Towards mizuko kuyo:Memorial Services for Dead Children in Japan
*Sabina Magliocco, Ritual is My Chosen Art Form: The Creation of Ritual as Folk Art Among Contemporary Pagans
Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema 4. Shamans, Priests, and Prophets
Victor W. Turner, Religious Specialists
C. Von Furer-Haimendorf, Priests
William Howells, The Shaman: A Siberian Spiritualist
Michael Fobes Brown, Dark Side of the Shaman
Michael Barkun, Reflections after Waco: Millennialists and the State 5. The Religious Use of Drugs
Francis Huxley, Drugs
*Mike Kiyanni and Thomas J. Csordas, On the Peyote Road
Peter T. Furst and Michael D. Coe, Ritual Enemas
Michael Harner, The Sound of Rushing Water
Robert S. de Ropp, Psychedelic Drugs and Religious Experience 6. Ethnomedicine: Religion and Healing
Arthur C. Lehmann, Eyes of the Ngangas: Ethnomedicine and Power in Central African Republic
Robert Bergman, A School for Medicine Men
William Wedenoja, Mothering and Practice of ‘Balm’ in Jamaica
*L.A. Rebhun, Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil
*Edward c. Halperin, Should Academic Medical Centers Conduct Clinical Trials of the Efficacy of Intercessory Prayer? 7. Witchcraft and Sorcery, Divination and Magic
James L. Brain, An Anthropological Perspective on the Witchcraze
Naomi M. McPherson, Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance among the Kabana, West New Britain
Harry D. Eastwell, "Voodoo Death and the Mechanism for Dispatch of the Dying in East Arnhem, Australia"
E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Consulting the Poison Oracle Among the Azande
Bronislaw Malinowski, Rational Mastery By Man of His Surroundings
George Gmelch, Baseball Magic
8. Ghosts, Souls, and Ancestors: Power of the Dead
William E. Mitchell, A New Weapon Stirs Up Old Ghosts
Paul Barber, The Real Vampire
Karen McCarthy Brown, Voodoo
Peter A. Metcalf, Death Be Not Strange
*Stanley Brandes, The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan
*C. Allen Haney, Christina Leimer, and Juliann Lowery, Spontaenous Memorialization: Violet Death and Emerging Mourning Ritual
9. Old and New Religions: The Changing Spiritual Landscape
*Melvyn C. Goldstein and Kapstein, The Revival of Monastic Life in Deprepung Monastery
Anthony F. C. Wallace, Revitalization Movements
Alice Beck Kehoe, The Ghost Dance Religion
Peter M. Worsley, Cargo Cults
*William F. Lewis, Urban Rastas in ingston, Jamaica
*William Jankowiak and Emilie Alen, Adoring the Father: Religion and Charisma in an American Polygamous Community
*John Whitmore, Religious Dimensions of the UFO Abductee Experience 10. Religion as Global Culture: Migration, Media, and Other Transnational Forces
*Homa Hoodfar, The Veil in their Minds and On Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women
*Steve Brouwer, Paul Gifford, and Susan D. Rose, South Korea: Modernization With a Vengeance, Evangelization With The Modern Edge
*Raymond Brady Williams, Training Religious Specialists for a Transnational Hinduism: A Swaminarayan Sadhu Training Center
*Mark Juergensmeyer, The Global Rise of Religious Nationalism
*Stephen D. O'Leary, Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks
*Lisle Dalton, Eric Michael Mazur, and Monica Siems, Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons Glossary • Bibliography • Index
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