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Anthropology of religion : a handbook

Author: Stephen D Glazier
Publisher: Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, ©1999.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Anthropology of religion.
Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, c1999
(OCoLC)768328183
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen D Glazier
ISBN: 0275965600 9780275965600
OCLC Number: 41566902
Description: viii, 542 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Reading "Snake handling" : critical reflections / Jim Birckhead --
The study of religion in American society / Melinda Bollar Wagner --
Science, religion, and anthropology / James Lett --
Thinking about magic / Michael F. Brown --
Ritual and current studies of ritual : overview / Bobby C. Alexander --
African ritual / Mathias Guenther --
Ritual performances in India / Peter J. Claus --
Ritual in East Asia : Japan / Mary Evelyn Tucker --
Rituals among Native North Americans / John A. Grim --
Ritual in the United States / Madeline Duntley --
The anthropology of Islam / Gregory Starrett --
Hinduism in context : approaching a religious tradition through external sources / Cynthia Keppley Mahmood --
Buddhist communities : historical precedents and ethnographic paradigms / Todd T. Lewis --
The pilgrimage to Magdalena / Mary I. O'Connor --
Altered states of consciousness and religious behavior / Michael Winkelman --
Shamanism / Joan B. Townsend --
The cycle of meaning : some methodological implications of biogenetic structural theory / Charles D. Laughlin --
The origin of an illusion / Stewart Elliott Guthrie --
The sacred integration of the cultural self : an anthropological approach to the study of religion / Jacob Pandian.
Responsibility: edited by Stephen D. Glazier.

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