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| The Anthropological Study of Religion | |
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| Religion | |
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| Why We Became Religious and The Evolution of the Spirit World | |
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| Religious Perspectives in Anthropology | |
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| Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions | |
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| Thai Buddhism and the Popularity of Amulets in Anthropological Perspective | |
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| Myth, Symbolism, and Taboo | |
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| The Study of Mythology | |
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| Nyoro Myth | |
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| Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth | |
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| The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol | |
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| Taboo | |
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| Serpent-Handling as Sacrament | |
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| Ritual | |
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| Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage | |
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| "I Bow My Head to the Ground": Creating Bodily Experience Through Initiation | |
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| Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity on the Peyote Hunt of the Huichol Indians | |
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| Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People | |
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| A Handmaid's Tale | |
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| Body Ritual Among the Nacirema | |
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| Shamans, Priests, and Prophets | |
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| Religious Specialists | |
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| Shamanism | |
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| Dark Side of the Shaman | |
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| Training for the Priesthood Among the Kogi of Colombia | |
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| Reflections After Waco: Millennialists and the State | |
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| Altered States of Consciousness and the Religious Use of Drugs | |
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| Trance, Possession, Shamanism, and Sex | |
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| Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Spirit Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums | |
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| On the Peyote Road | |
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| Ritual Enemas | |
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| The Sound of Rushing Water | |
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| The Rave: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western Subcultures | |
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| Ethnomedicine: Religion and Healing | |
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| Eyes of the Ngangas: Ethnomedicine and Power in Central African Republic | |
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| Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil 249 | |
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| Mothering and the Practice of "Balm" in Jamaica | |
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| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | |
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| Witchcraft, Sorcery, Divination, and Magic | |
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| An Anthropological Perspective on the Witchcraze | |
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| Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance Among the Kabana, West New Britain | |
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| The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft | |
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| Consulting the Poison Oracle Among the Azande | |
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| Rational Mastery by Man of His Surroundings | |
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| Baseball Magic | |
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| Ghosts, Souls, and Ancestors: Power of the Dead | |
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| The Real Vampire | |
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| Vodou | |
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| Death Be Not Strange | |
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| The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan | |
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| Old and New Religions: The Changing Spiritual Landscape | |
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| Revitalization Movements | |
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| The Ghost Dance Religion | |
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| Cargo Cults | |
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| Urban Rastas in Kingston, Jamaica | |
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| Speaking Is Believing | |
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| Islamic Law: The Foundation of Muslim Practice and a Measure of Social and Political Change | |
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| Religion as Global Culture: Migration, Media, and Other Transnational Forces | |
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| The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women | |
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| Ritual and the Performance of Buddhist Identity Among Lao Buddhists in North America | |
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| Religious Terror and Global War | |
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| Eric Michael Mazur, and Monica Siems, Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |