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Anthropology of Religion A Handbook
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Stephen D. Glazier
ISBN: 0-275-96560-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96560-0
550 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/1999
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The anthropological study of religion is at a crossroads. While fewer textbooks on the anthropology of religion are published each year and much of what is available is decades old, religion is playing an increasingly prominent role in society. Scholars from many fields are reading anthropological works on religion with great interest, and such works are cited frequently in books and articles in a range of disciplines. Religion has been found in all societies studied by anthropologists and is one of the hallmarks of human creativity.

This reference book provides a much-needed overview of the most important topics and trends in the anthropology of religion. Chapters by expert contributors examine the varied manifestations of religion in diverse cultural contexts. Among the topics surveyed are shamanism, snake handling, rituals in particular cultural traditions, religion and altered states of consciousness, and the role of science in religion and anthropology. Chapters contain extensive documentation, and a bibliography concludes the volume.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Stephen D. Glazier
    Looking at Religion Anthropologically
    Reading "Snake Handling": Critical Reflections by Jim Birckhead
    The Study of Religion in American Society by Melinda Bollar Wagner
    Science, Religion, and Anthropology by James Lett
    Thinking About Magic by Michael F. Brown
    The Study of Ritual
    Ritual and Current Studies of Ritual: Overview by Bobby C. Alexander
    African Ritual by Mathias Guenther
    Ritual Performance in India by Peter J. Claus
    Ritual in East Asia: Japan by Mary Evelyn Tucker
    Rituals Among Native North Americans by John A. Grim
    Ritual in the United States by Madeline Duntley
    Little and Great Traditions
    The Anthropology of Islam by Gregory Starrett
    Hinduism in Context: Approaching a Religious Tradition Through External Sources by Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
    Buddhist Communities: Historical Precedents and Ethnographic Paradigms by Todd T. Lewis
    The Pilgrimage to Magdalena by Mary I. O'Connor
    Shamanism and Religious Consciousness
    Altered States of Consciousness and Religious Behavior by Michael Winkelman
    Shamanism by Joan B. Townsend
    The Cycle of Meaning: Some Methodological Implications of Biogenetic Structural Theory by Charles D. Laughlin
    The Origin of an Illusion by Stewart Guthrie
    The Sacred Integration of the Cultural Self: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Religion by Jacob Pandian
    Select Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: azier /f Stephen /i D. /r ed./b STEPHEN D. GLAZIER is Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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