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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Anthropology of religion. Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, c1999 (OCoLC)768328183 |
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| 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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