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| The Anthropological Study of Religion | |
| Religion | |
| Why We Became Religious and The Evolution of the Spirit World | |
| Religious Perspectives in Anthropology | |
| Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions | |
| Thai Buddhism and the Popularity of Amulets in Anthropological Perspective | |
| Myth, Symbolism, and Taboo | |
| The Study of Mythology | |
| Nyoro Myth | |
| Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth | |
| The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol | |
| Taboo | |
| Serpent-Handling as Sacrament | |
| Ritual | |
| Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage | |
| "I Bow My Head to the Ground": Creating Bodily Experience Through Initiation | |
| Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity on the Peyote Hunt of the Huichol Indians | |
| Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People | |
| A Handmaid's Tale | |
| Body Ritual Among the Nacirema | |
| Shamans, Priests, and Prophets | |
| Religious Specialists | |
| Shamanism | |
| Dark Side of the Shaman | |
| Training for the Priesthood Among the Kogi of Colombia | |
| Reflections After Waco: Millennialists and the State | |
| Altered States of Consciousness and the Religious Use of Drugs | |
| Trance, Possession, Shamanism, and Sex | |
| Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Spirit Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums | |
| On the Peyote Road | |
| Ritual Enemas | |
| The Sound of Rushing Water | |
| The Rave: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western Subcultures | |
| Ethnomedicine: Religion and Healing | |
| Eyes of the Ngangas: Ethnomedicine and Power in Central African Republic | |
| Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil 249 | |
| Mothering and the Practice of "Balm" in Jamaica | |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | |
| Witchcraft, Sorcery, Divination, and Magic | |
| An Anthropological Perspective on the Witchcraze | |
| Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance Among the Kabana, West New Britain | |
| The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft | |
| Consulting the Poison Oracle Among the Azande | |
| Rational Mastery by Man of His Surroundings | |
| Baseball Magic | |
| Ghosts, Souls, and Ancestors: Power of the Dead | |
| The Real Vampire | |
| Vodou | |
| Death Be Not Strange | |
| The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan | |
| Old and New Religions: The Changing Spiritual Landscape | |
| Revitalization Movements | |
| The Ghost Dance Religion | |
| Cargo Cults | |
| Urban Rastas in Kingston, Jamaica | |
| Speaking Is Believing | |
| Islamic Law: The Foundation of Muslim Practice and a Measure of Social and Political Change | |
| Religion as Global Culture: Migration, Media, and Other Transnational Forces | |
| The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women | |
| Ritual and the Performance of Buddhist Identity Among Lao Buddhists in North America | |
| Religious Terror and Global War | |
| Eric Michael Mazur, and Monica Siems, Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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