This comparative reader takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs and practices, both strange and familiar. The engaging articles on all key issues related to the anthropology of religion grab the attention of students, while giving them an excellent foundation in contemporary ideas and approaches in the field. The multiple authors included in each chapter represent a range of interests, geographic foci, and ways of looking at each subject. Divided into 10 chapters, this book begins with a broad view of anthropological ways of looking at religion, and moves on to some of the core topics within the subject, such as myth, ritual, and the various types of religious specialists.
FEATURES OF THE SEVENTH EDITION
* Six of the fifty-seven articles are new. Preceded by all-new introductions, most of these articles are by classic authors in the discipline, including John Beattie, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Barbara Myerhoff, Roy Rappaport, and G. Reichel-Dolmatoff. Also new are an article on Islamic pilgrimage and an updated article on Haitian vodou.
* Numerous timely articles in the book include such topics as religious nationalism and violence, abortion rituals in Japan, Islam and women, Tibetan Buddhism in China, and issues related to transnationalism and contemporary media.
* The glossary has been updated and many article introductions have been revised.
Author(s): James Edward Myers, Pamela A. Moro, Arthur C. Lehmann
Edition: 7
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Year: 2008
Language: English
Commentary: scantailor cleaned
Pages: 580
Tags: comparative religious studies;anthropology of religion;magicwitchcraftr00pame
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion
Contents
Preface
1 The Anthropological Study of Religion
1 Clifford Geertz * Religion
2 Marvin Harris * Why We Became Religious and The Evolution of the Spirit World
3 Dorothy Lee * Religious Perspectives in Anthropology
4 Stephen Jay Gould * Non-Overlapping Magisteria
5 Robert S. Root-Bernstein * Darwin’s Rib
6 Claude E. Stipe * Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions
2 Myth, Symbolism, and Taboo
7 Scott Leonard and Michael McClure * The Study of Mythology
8 John Beattie * Nyoro Myth
9 Claude Lévi-Strauss * Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth
10 Raymond Firth * An Anthropologist’s Reflections on Symbolic Usage
11 Mary Douglas * Taboo
12 Mary Lee Daugherty * Serpent-Handling as Sacrament
3 Ritual
13 Victor W. Turner * Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage
14 Daniel Gordon * Female Circumcision in Egypt and Sudan: A Controversial Rite of Passage
15 Barbara G. Myerhoff * Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity on the Peyote Hunt of the Huichol Indians
16 Roy A. Rappaport * Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People
17 Elizabeth G. Harrison * Can Only Move My Feet Towards mizuko kuyo: Memorial Services for Dead Children in Japan
18 Horace Miner * Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
4 Shamans, Priests, and Prophets
19 Victor W. Turner * Religious Specialists
20 William Howells * The Shaman: A Siberian Spiritualist
21 Michael Fobes Brown * Dark Side of the Shaman
22 Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff * Training for the Priesthood Among the Kogi of Colombia
23 Michael Barkun * Reflections After Waco: Millennialists and the State
5 The Religious Use of Drugs
24 Mike Kiyaani and Thomas J. Csordas * On the Peyote Road
25 Peter T. Furst and Michael D. Coe * Ritual Enemas
26 Michael Harner * The Sound of Rushing Water
27 Robert S. de Ropp * Psychedelic Drugs and Religious Experience
6 Ethnomedicine: Religion and Healing
28 Arthur C. Lehmann * Eyes of the Ngangas: Ethnomedicine and Power in Central African Republic
29 Robert Bergman * A School for Medicine Men
30 William Wedenoja * Mothering and the Practice of “Balm” in Jamaica
31 L. A. Rebhun * Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil
32 Edward C. Halperin, MD * Should Academic Medical Centers Conduct Clinical Trials of the Efficacy of Intercessory Prayer?
7 Witchcraft, Sorcery, Divination, and Magic
33 James L. Brain * An Anthropological Perspective on the Witchcraze
34 Naomi M. McPherson * Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance Among the Kabana, West New Britain
35 T. M. Luhrmann * The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft
36 E. E. Evans-Pritchard * Consulting the Poison Oracle Among the Azande
37 Bronislaw Malinowski * Rational Mastery by Man of His Surroundings
38 George Gmelch * Baseball Magic
8 Ghosts, Souls, and Ancestors: Power of the Dead
39 William E. Mitchell * A New Weapon Stirs Up Old Ghosts
40 Paul Barber * The Real Vampire
41 Karen McCarthy Brown * Vodou
42 Peter A. Metcalf * Death Be Not Strange
43 Stanley Brandes * The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan
44 C. Allen Haney, Christina Leimer, and Juliann Lowery * Spontaneous Memorialization: Violent Death and Emerging Mourning Ritual
9 Old and New Religions: The Changing Spiritual Landscape
45 Melvyn C. Goldstein * The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery
45 James Steel Thayer * Pilgrimage and Its Influence on West African Islam
47 Anthony F. C. Wallace * Revitalization Movements
48 Alice Beck Kehoe * The Ghost Dance Religion
49 Peter M. Worsley * Cargo Cults
50 William F. Lewis * Urban Rastas in Kingston, Jamaica
51 William Jankowiak and Emilie Allen * Adoring the Father: Religion and Charisma in an American Polygamous Community
52 John Whitmore * Religious Dimensions of the UFO Abductee Experience
10 Religion as Global Culture: Migration, Media, and Other Transnational Forces
53 Homa Hoodfar * The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women
54 Steve Brouwer, Paul Gifford, and Susan D. Rose * South Korea: Modernization with a Vengeance, Evangelization with the Modern Edge
55 Mark Juergensmeyer * The Global Rise of Religious Nationalism
56 Stephen D. O'Leary * Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks
57 Lisle Dalton, Eric Michael Mazur, and Monica Siems * Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
