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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 | |