TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lambek,Michael
TI  - A reader in the anthropology of religion
T2  - Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology
SN  - 0631221123
AV  - BL256 .R43 2002
U1  - 306.6 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Malden, Mass.
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion
N1  - 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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