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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: What Is Religion? | |
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| Introducing Religion | |
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| The Origins of Religion | |
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| How Religion Began: Human Evolution and the Origin of Religion (2002) | |
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| Explaining Religion Without Explaining It Away: Trust, Truth, and the Evolution of Cooperation in | |
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| "The Obvious Aspects of Ritual" (1999) | |
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| Rational Mastery by Man of His Surroundings (1925) | |
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| Religion and Society | |
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| Culture, Charisma, and Consciousness: The Case of the Rajneeshee (2002) | |
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| The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia (1988) | |
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| Japanese Death Rituals in Transit: From Household Ancestors to Beloved Antecedents (1998) | |
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| Religion and the Environment | |
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| Balinese "Water Temples" and the Management of Irrigation (1987) | |
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| The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle (1966) | |
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| Sacred Terrain: Religion, Politics, and Place in the History of Anloga (Ghana) (1997) | |
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| Ritual, Religion, and the Supernatural | |
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| Supernatural Beings and Powers | |
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| Tribal Religion in India: A Case Study of the Bhils (1986) | |
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| The Qawa Incident in 1968 and Other Cases of "Spirit Possession": Religious Syncretism in Fiji (1995) | |
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| The Devil and the Saints in the Conquest of Mexico (1994) | |
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| Tales of Mastery: Spirit Familiar in Sufis' Religious Imagination (2004) | |
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| Special Roles in Religion | |
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| Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism (1996) | |
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| Claiming Legitimacy: Prophecy Narratives from Northern Aboriginal Women (1994) | |
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| The Embodiment of Paradox: Yoruba Kingship and Female Power (1991) | |
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| Ritual and Ceremony | |
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| Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage (1964) | |
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| Play and Liminality in Rites of Passage: From Elder to Ancestor in West Africa (1991) | |
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| Female Circumcision in Southern Chad: Origins, Meaning, and Current Practice (1996) | |
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| Baseball Magic (2002) | |
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| Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (1956) | |
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| Journeys of the Soul | |
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| Altered StatesWade Davis, Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies (1985) | |
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| The Old Woman and Her Gifts: Pharmacological Bases of the Chumash Use of Datura (1994) | |
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| Cognitive and Optical Illusions in San Rock Art Research (1986) | |
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| The Rave: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western Subcultures (2000) | |
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| "The Night I Got the Holy Ghost . . .": Holy Ghost Narratives and the Pentecostal Conversion Process (1988) | |
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| Death and Funerals | |
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| Whatever Happened to the American Way of Death? (1996) | |
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| "Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom": Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society (1995) | |
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| Killing Infants and the Aged in Nonindustrial Societies: Removing the Liminal (1988) | |
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| Origins and Realities of Suttee in Hinduism (2002) | |
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| Sickness and Health | |
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| Healing | |
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| Magic, Medicine, and Metaphysics in Nigeria (1991) | |
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| Effective Features of Therapy from the Healer's Perspective: A Study of Curanderismo (1986) | |
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| "Is it the Spirit or the Body"?: Syncretism of Health Beliefs Among Hmong Immigrants to Alaska (2007) | |
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| Culture-Bound Illnesses in a Samoan Migrant Community (1985) | |
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| Bewitching | |
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| Parallels between Recollections of Repressed Childhood Sex Abuse | |
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| Kidnappings by Space Aliens, and the 1692 Salem Witch Hunts (1994) | |
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| Spirits, Shamans, and Nightmare Death: Survivor Stress in a Hmong Refugee (1983) | |
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| Magical Literacy: Encountering a Witch's Book in Ecuador (1988) | |
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| Religion in Contemporary States | |
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