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ISBN 10: 1405136154

ISBN 13: 9781405136150

Author: Michael Lambek

A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by ‘religion’, linking it to some of the broader questions of culture and politics.

• Collects classic and contemporary articles from the major thinkers in both North American and British anthropology
• Emphasizes the ongoing conversation among anthropologists with respect to central questions of religious behavior
• Presents comprehensive coverage of theory and religious practice, through time and ethnographic regions, integrated by editorial commentary
• Includes additional classic pieces by Pouillon, Burridge, and Meyerhoff, as well as more contemporary work by Harding, De Boeck, and Palmié
• Includes indexed bibliography arranged according to both ethnographic region and religious topics and practices

Table of contents:

Part I The Context of Understanding and Debate
Chapter 1: Religion in Primitive Culture
Chapter 2: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Chapter 3: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Chapter 4: Religion as a Cultural System
Chapter 5: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough
Chapter 6: Religion, Totemism and Symbolism
Chapter 7: Remarks on the Verb “To Believe”
Chapter 8: Christians as Believers
Chapter 9: The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category

Part II Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds
Chapter 10: The Logic of Signs and Symbols
Chapter 11: The Problem of Symbols
Chapter 12: On Key Symbols
Chapter 13: The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol
Chapter 14: Myth in Primitive Psychology
Chapter 15: Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture
Chapter 16: Land Animals, Pure and Impure
Chapter 17: A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo
Chapter 18: Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre
Chapter 19: The Winnebago Trickster Figure
Chapter 20: Witchcraft and Sexual Relations
Chapter 21: The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
Chapter 22: Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual
Chapter 23: Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism

Part III Praxis: Religious Action
Chapter 24: The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action
Chapter 25: Form and Meaning of Magical Acts
Chapter 26: Liminality and Communitas
Chapter 27: “Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots”
Chapter 28: Fate in Relation to the Social Structure
Chapter 29: Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
Chapter 30: Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan
Chapter 31: The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination
Chapter 32: The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process
Chapter 33: Enactments of Meaning

Part IV Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change
Chapter 34: New Heaven, New Earth
Chapter 35: The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry
Chapter 36: The Colonization of Consciousness
Chapter 37: Convicted by the Holy Spirit
Chapter 38: On Being Shege in Kinshasa
Chapter 39: Civil Religion in America
Chapter 40: Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia
Chapter 41: “Using the Past to Negate the Present”
Chapter 42: Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo
Chapter 43: Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains
Chapter 44: Candomblé in Pink, Green and Black
Chapter 45: Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence
Chapter 46: Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other

Part V Research Tools
Chapter 47: A Guide to the Literature

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