TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glazier,Stephen D.
TI  - Anthropology of religion: a handbook 
AV  - GN470.G553.A584 1997 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Westport, Connecticut
PB  - Greenwood Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Anthropology
N1  - 1 (pages 517.-521) and index; Introduction; Stephen D. Glazier --; Pt. I. Looking at religion anthropologically. 1. Reading "snake handling": critical reflections; Jim Birckhead. 2. The study of religion in American society; Melinda Bollar Wagner. 3. Science, religion, and anthropology; James Lett. 4. Thinking about magic; Mechael F. Brown --; Pt. II. The study of ritual. 5. Ritual and current studies of ritual: overview; Bobby C. Alexander. 6. African ritual; Mathias Guenther. 7. Ritual performances in India; Peter J. Claus. 8. Ritual in east Asia: Japan; Mary Evelyn Tucker. 9. Rituals among  native North Americans; John A. Grim. 10. Ritual in the United States; Madeline Duntley --; Pt. III. Little and great traditions. 11. The anthropology of Islam; Gregory Starrett. 12. Hinduism in context: approaching a religious tradition through external sources; Cynthia Keppley Mahmood. 13. Buddhist communities : historical precedents and ethnographic paradigms; Todd T. Lewis --; 14. The pilgrimage to Magdalena /  Mary I. O'Connor --; Pt. IV. Shamanism and religious consciousness. 15. Altered states of consciuosness and religious behavior; Michael Winkelman.  16. Shamanism; Joan B. Townsend. 17. The cycle of meaning: some methodological implications of biogenetic structural theory; Charles D. Laughlin. 18. The origin of an illusion; Stewart Elliott Guthrie. 19. The sacred integration of the cultural self: an anthrop?logical approach to the  study of religion; Jacob Pandian; 2
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