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Preface to Second Edition | p. xi |
General Introduction | p. 1 |
The Context of Understanding and Debate | p. 19 |
Opening Frameworks | p. 21 |
Introduction | p. 21 |
Religion in Primitive Culture | p. 23 |
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | p. 34 |
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | p. 48 |
Religion as a Cultural System | p. 57 |
Skeptical Rejoinders | p. 77 |
Introduction | p. 77 |
Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough | p. 79 |
Religion, Totemism and Symbolism | p. 82 |
Remarks on the Verb "To Believe" | p. 90 |
Christians as Believers | p. 97 |
The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category | p. 110 |
Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds | p. 127 |
Signs and Symbols | p. 129 |
Introduction | p. 129 |
The Logic of Signs and Symbols | p. 131 |
The Problem of Symbols | p. 139 |
On Key Symbols | p. 151 |
The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol | p. 160 |
Structure, Function, and Interpretation | p. 167 |
Introduction | p. 167 |
Myth in Primitive Psychology | p. 168 |
Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture | p. 176 |
Land Animals, Pure and Impure | p. 183 |
A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo | p. 196 |
Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre | p. 206 |
Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder | p. 225 |
Introduction | p. 225 |
The Winnebago Trickster Figure | p. 226 |
Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief | p. 238 |
The Politics and Poetics of Transgression | p. 253 |
Conceptualizing the Cosmos | p. 265 |
Introduction | p. 265 |
Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual | p. 267 |
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism | p. 280 |
Praxis: Religious Action | p. 299 |
The Movement in Ritual: Emergence | p. 301 |
Introduction | p. 301 |
The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action | p. 302 |
Form and Meaning of Magical Acts | p. 311 |
Liminality and Communitas | p. 326 |
Gender, Subjectivity, and the Body | p. 341 |
Introduction | p. 341 |
"Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots" | p. 342 |
Fate in Relation to the Social Structure | p. 350 |
Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience | p. 356 |
Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance | p. 368 |
The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination | p. 386 |
What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order | p. 397 |
Introduction | p. 397 |
The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process | p. 398 |
Enactments of Meaning | p. 410 |
Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change | p. 429 |
Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict | p. 431 |
Introduction | p. 431 |
New Heaven, New Earth | p. 432 |
The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money | p. 447 |
The Colonization of Consciousness | p. 464 |
Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion | p. 479 |
On Being Shege in Kinshasa: Children, the Occult and the Street | p. 495 |
Religious Ethics and Politics in the State, Public Sphere, and Transnational Scene | p. 507 |
Introduction | p. 507 |
Civil Religion in America | p. 509 |
Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia: Views from the Center and Periphery | p. 519 |
"Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China | p. 533 |
Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo | p. 544 |
Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains | p. 560 |
Candomble in Pink, Green and Black: Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian Religious Heritage in the Public Sphere of Salvador, Bahia | p. 573 |
Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence | p. 590 |
Afterword | p. 597 |
Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other | p. 598 |
Research Tools | p. 611 |
A Guide to the Literature | p. 613 |
Bibliography | p. 630 |
Index | p. 673 |
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