Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Anthropological Study of Religion1 Jack David Eller, Studying Religion Anthropologically2 Melinda Bollar Wagner, The Study of Religion in American Society3 Marvin Harris, Why We Became Religious and The Evolution of the Spirit World4 Dorothy Lee, Religious Perspectives in Anthropology5 Pamela Moro, Thai Buddhism and the Popularity of Amulets in Anthropological PerspectiveChapter 2: Myth, Symbolism, and Worldview6 John Beattie, Nyoro Myth7 Kirin Narayan, Across the Seven Seas: a Hindu Woman's Sacred Narratives8. Eric R. Wolf, The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol9 Clifford Geertz, Ethos, World-view, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols10 Mary Lee Daugherty, Serpent-Handling as SacramentChapter 3: Rituals11 Victor W. Turner, Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage12 Michael Atwood Mason, “I bow my head to the ground”: Creating Bodily Experience Through Initiation13 Barbara G. Myerhoff, Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity on the Peyote Hunt of the Huichol Indians14 Thomas J. Csordas, A Handmaid’s Tale: The Rhetoric of Personhood in American and Japanese Healing of Abortions15 Deborah Kapchan, Moroccan Women's Body Signs: Henna and TattooChapter 4: Shamans, Priests, and Prophets16 Victor Turner, Religious Specialists 17 Piers Vitebsky, Shamanism 18 Michael Fobes Brown, Dark Side of the Shaman 19 Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Training for the Priesthood Among the Kogi of Colombia20 Mark R. Mullins, Aum Shinrikyo as an Apocalyptic MovementChapter 5: Altered States of Consciousness and the Religious Use of Drugs21 M. Lewis, Trance and Possession22 Sydney M. Greenfield, Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums23 Peter T. Furst and Michael D. Coe, Ritual Enemas24 Michael Harner, The Sound of Rushing Water25 Scott Hutson, The Rave: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western SubculturesChapter 6: Illness, Healing, and Religion26 George M. Foster, Disease Etiologies in Non-Western Medical Systems27 Elizabeth De La Portilla, Curanderismo: Healers and Their Clients28 Anne F. Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down29 Susan Kenyon, Zar as Modernization in Contemporary Sudan30 Lee Gilmore, Embers, Dust, and Ashes: Pilgrimage and Healing at the Burning Man FestivalChapter 7: Witchcraft, Sorcery, Divination, and Magic31 Felicity Thomas, "Our Families are Killing Us": HIV/AIDS, Witchcraft and Social Tensions in Namibia32 Naomi M. McPherson, Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance Among the Kabana, West New Britain33 T. M. Luhrmann, The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft34 Barry S. Hewlett, Searching for the Truth: The Poison Oracle among Central African Foragers and Farmers35 George Gmelch, Baseball MagicChapter 8: Death, Ancestors, and Souls36 Karen McCarthy Brown, Vodou 37 Peter A. Metcalf, Death Be Not Strange38 Beth A. Conklin, Cannibal Epistemologies39 Kristin Norget, Days of the Dead in Oaxaca40 Margaret Lock, When Bodies Outlive Persons: Defining Brain DeathChapter 9: Religion in a Changing World: Identity, Adaptation, and Activism41 William F. Lewis, Urban Rastas in Kingston, Jamaica42 Andrew Buckser, Social Conversion and Group Definition in Jewish Copenhagen43 Homa Hoodfar, The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women44 Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Islamic Law: The Foundation of Muslim Practice and a Measure of Social and Political Change45 Mark Juergensmeyer, Religious Terror and Global War46 Tanya Erzen, Religious Literacy in the Faith-Based Prison47 Susan M. Darlington, The Ordination of a Tree: the Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand