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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-Overlapping Magisteria
*Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Darwin's Rib
*Claude E. Stipe, Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions

2. Myth, Symbolism, and Taboo
*Scott Leonard and Michael McClure, The Study of Mythology
*John Beattie, Nyoro Myth
*Claude Levi-Strauss, Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth
Raymond Firth, An Anthropologist's Reflections on Symbolic Usage
Mary Douglas, Taboo
*Mary Lee Daugherty, Serpent-Handling as Sacrament

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
*Barbara G. Myerhoff, Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity on the Peyote Hunt of the Uichol Indians
*Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People
Elizabeth G. Harrison, I Can Only Move My Feet Towards mizuo kuyo:Memorial Services for Dead Children in Japan
Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

4. Shamans, Priests, and Prophets
Victor W. Turner, Religious Specialists
William Howells, The Shaman
Michael Fobes Brown, Dark Side of the Shaman
*G. Reichel-Dolmatoff, Training for the Priesthood Among the kogi of Colombia
Michael Barkun, Reflections after Waco: Millennialists and the State

5. The Religious Use of Drugs
Mike Miyanni 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
T.M. Luhrmann, The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft
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: Violent Death and Emerging Mourning Ritual

9. Old and New Religions: The Changing Spiritual Landscape
Melvyn C. Goldstein, The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery
*James Steel Thayer, Pilgrimmage and Its Influence on West African Islam
Anthony F. C. Wallace, Revitalization Movements
Alice Beck Kehoe, The Ghost Dance Religion
Peter M. Worsley, Cargo Cults
William F. Lewis, Urban Rastas in Kingston, Jamaica
William Janokowiak and Emilie Allen, 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
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