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A reader in the anthropology of religion / edited by Michael Lambek.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 2.Publisher: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2002Description: x, 620 : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0631221123
  • 9780631221128
  • 0631221131
  • 9780631221135
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 21
LOC classification:
  • BL256 .R43 2002
Partial contents:
Pt. I. The Context of Understanding and Debate. 1. Religion in Primitive Culture / Edward Burnett Tylor. 2. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life / Emile Durkheim. 3. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber. 4. Religion as a Cultural System / Clifford Geertz -- Skeptical Rejoinders. 5. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Ludwig Wittgenstein. 6. Religion, Totemism and Symbolism / W. E. H. Stanner. 7. Christians as Believers / Malcolm Ruel. 8. The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category / Talal Asad -- Pt. II. Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds. 9. The Logic of Signs and Symbols / Susanne K. Langer. 10. The Problem of Symbols / E. E. Evans-Pritchard. 11. On Key Symbols / Sherry B. Ortner. 12. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Eric R. Wolf -- Structure, Function, and Interpretation. 13. Myth in Primitive Psychology / Bronislaw Malinowski. 14. Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture / Marshall Sahlins. 15. Land Animals, Pure and Impure / Mary Douglas. 16. A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo / Claude Levi-Strauss. 17. Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre / Alton L. Becker -- Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder. 18. The Winnebago Trickster Figure / Paul Radin. 19. Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief / Raymond C. Kelly. 20. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Conceptualizing the Cosmos. 21. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual / Alfred Gell. 22. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Pt. III. Praxis: Religious Action -- The Movement of Ritual: Emergence. 23. The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action / Godfrey Lienhardt. 24. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah. 25. Liminality and Communitas / Victor Turner -- Religion and Personal Experience. 26. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure / Meyer Fortes. 27. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience / Gananath Obeyesekere. 28. Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance / Janice Boddy. 29. The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination / Dennis Tedlock -- What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order. 30. The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process / Maurice Bloch. 31. Enactments of Meaning / Roy A. Rappaport -- Pt. IV. Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change -- Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict. 32. The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money / Michael Taussig. 33. The Colonization of Consciousness / John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene. 34. Civil Religion in America / Robert N. Bellah. 35. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. 36. Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind. 37. Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely -- Pt. V. Research Tools.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-613) and index.

Pt. I. The Context of Understanding and Debate. 1. Religion in Primitive Culture / Edward Burnett Tylor. 2. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life / Emile Durkheim. 3. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber. 4. Religion as a Cultural System / Clifford Geertz -- Skeptical Rejoinders. 5. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Ludwig Wittgenstein. 6. Religion, Totemism and Symbolism / W. E. H. Stanner. 7. Christians as Believers / Malcolm Ruel. 8. The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category / Talal Asad -- Pt. II. Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds. 9. The Logic of Signs and Symbols / Susanne K. Langer. 10. The Problem of Symbols / E. E. Evans-Pritchard. 11. On Key Symbols / Sherry B. Ortner. 12. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Eric R. Wolf -- Structure, Function, and Interpretation. 13. Myth in Primitive Psychology / Bronislaw Malinowski. 14. Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture / Marshall Sahlins. 15. Land Animals, Pure and Impure / Mary Douglas. 16. A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo / Claude Levi-Strauss. 17. Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre / Alton L. Becker -- Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder. 18. The Winnebago Trickster Figure / Paul Radin. 19. Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief / Raymond C. Kelly. 20. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Conceptualizing the Cosmos. 21. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual / Alfred Gell. 22. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Pt. III. Praxis: Religious Action -- The Movement of Ritual: Emergence. 23. The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action / Godfrey Lienhardt. 24. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah. 25. Liminality and Communitas / Victor Turner -- Religion and Personal Experience. 26. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure / Meyer Fortes. 27. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience / Gananath Obeyesekere. 28. Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance / Janice Boddy. 29. The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination / Dennis Tedlock -- What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order. 30. The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process / Maurice Bloch. 31. Enactments of Meaning / Roy A. Rappaport -- Pt. IV. Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change -- Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict. 32. The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money / Michael Taussig. 33. The Colonization of Consciousness / John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene. 34. Civil Religion in America / Robert N. Bellah. 35. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. 36. Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind. 37. Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely -- Pt. V. Research Tools.

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