Ritual and Belief Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

Name: Ritual and Belief Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
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ISBN: 9780759111561

ISBN-10: 0759111561

ISBN-13: 9780759111561

Edition: 3rd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: David Hicks

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List price: $94.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 6/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 7.09" wide x 10.07" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 2.376
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Perspectives



Animism




The Return of Totemism in Childhood




The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life




Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification



Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth




The Dogon




Pollution




Gods, Spirits, and Souls



A Kernel of Doubt




The Universality of Ancestor Worship




What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural: Intuitive Ontology and Cultural Representations




Ritual



Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu




The Rites of Passage: Conclusions




"Between Belief and Unbelief Lies the Performance of Salat": Meaning and Efficacy of a Muslim Ritual




Practitioners of Ritual



Religious Specialists




The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman




The Sound of Rushing Water




Body and Mind



My Adventure with Ebene: A "Religious Experience"




"Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom": Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society




"In Thy Blood Live": Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition




Magic and Witchcraft



Sympathetic Magic




Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them




Baseball Magic




Death



"Voodoo" Death




Symbolic Associations of Death




Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor




Gender and Sexuality



The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol




The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role




The Syphilitic Shock




The Natural Environment



Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest




Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People




Water Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community




Agents of Change



Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic Order




Revitalization Movements




Cargo Cults




New Religious Movements



Apocalypse at Jonestown




The Unification Church




Faith beyond Belief: Evangelical Protestant Conceptions of Faith and the Resonance of Anti-Humanism



Glossary


General References


Index


About the Author