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| Preface | |
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| Studying Religion through Practice | |
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| What Is "Religion"? | |
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| An Anthropological Approach to Religion | |
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| Practices, Contexts, Diversity | |
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| Social Theory in the Anthropology of Religion | |
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| Religion as Intellectual Activity | |
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| Religions in Social Life | |
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| The Psychology of Religion | |
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| Ideas and Practices of "Religion" in Europe and Elsewhere | |
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| Western Ideas of Religion | |
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| Other Religions, Other Models | |
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| Combining Religious Practices in Japan | |
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| Rituals and the Shaping of Emotions | |
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| Rites of Passage | |
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| Initiation, Secrecy, and Fear | |
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| Death Ritual and the Social Order | |
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| Grief and Ritual Form | |
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| Gender, Religion, and Ethnography | |
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| Creating Gender through Ritual | |
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| Reanalyses through the Lens of Gender | |
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| Articulating Women's Perspectives through Spirits | |
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| Religious Patriarchy and Its Challenges | |
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| Women and Islamic Dress | |
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| Patterns, Powers, and the Self | |
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| Magic, Patterns, and Causes | |
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| Explaining Misfortune | |
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| The New Age | |
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| Wicca or Modern Witchcraft | |
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| Healing through Religion | |
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| Prayer, Faith, and Healing | |
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| Does Prayer Heal? | |
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| Narratives and Pain Relief | |
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| Trance, Possession, and Healing | |
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| Modern Magic in Japanese New Religions | |
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| Sorcery, Witchcraft, and Modernity | |
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| La Sorcellerie in Cameroon | |
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| Azande Oracles | |
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| Sorcery and Modernity | |
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| Witchcraft as Satan versus God | |
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| Objects, Images, and Worship | |
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| Conveying Meaning through Symbols | |
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| Masks in West Africa | |
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| Images and Offerings in Hinduism | |
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| Relics and Images in Catholicism | |
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| Mary and Marys in European Societies | |
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| Crossing Cultural Boundaries | |
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| Converting | |
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| Translating: Mary in the Americas | |
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| Adapting: Islamic Sacrifice in New Cultures | |
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| Sacred Speech and Divine Power | |
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| The Qur'an as Recitation of God's Speech | |
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| The Creative Power of Navajo Speech and Song | |
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| Speech and Grace in Protestant Churches | |
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| Religion on the Web | |
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| Pilgrims and Places | |
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| Centers and Directions | |
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| Dimensions of Pilgrimage | |
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| The Pilgrimage to Mecca | |
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| Contrasts in Pilgrimage from Japan and India | |
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| Saints, Visions, and Prophets | |
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| Saints as Exemplars and as Sources of Assistance | |
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| Prophets and Social Change | |
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| Revitalization Movements: Messiahs, Millennia, and Revivals | |
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| Mormon Prophecy and Authority | |
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| Muhammad and His Successors | |
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| Religion, Violence, and War | |
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| Cults, Sects, and Violence | |
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| Struggle and Authority in Islam | |
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| The Place of Religions in Modern Nations and States | |
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| Religious Nationalisms | |
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| Religion and State Law | |
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| Religious Minorities and Public Religions | |
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| Minority Religions in Europe: Toleration or Public Recognition? | |
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| Religion, Nation, and State in the United States | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |