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Pt. I. The Context of Understanding and Debate
1. Religion in Primitive Culture
2. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
3. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
4. Religion as a Cultural System
Skeptical Rejoinders
5. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
6. Religion, Totemism and Symbolism
7. Remarks on the verb "to believe"
8. Christians as Believers
9. The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category
Pt. II. Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds
10. The Logic of Signs and Symbols
11. The Problem of Symbols
12. On Key Symbols
13. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol
Structure, Function, and Interpretation
14. Myth in Primitive Psychology
15. Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture
16. Land Animals, Pure and Impure
17. A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo
18. Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre
Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder
19. The Winnebago Trickster Figure
20. Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief
21. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
Conceptualizing the Cosmos
22. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual
23. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perpectivism
Pt. III. Praxis: Religious Action
The Movement of Ritual: Emergence
24. The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action
25. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts
26. Liminality and Communitas
Gender, subjectivity, and the body
27. "Jewish comes up in you from the roots"
28. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure
29. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
30. Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance
31. The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination
What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order
32. The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process
33. Enactments of Meaning
Pt. IV. Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change
Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict
34. New heaven, new Earth
35. The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money
36. The Colonization of Consciousness
37. Convicted by the Holy Spirit: the rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist conversion
38. On being Shege in Kinshasa: children, the occult and the street
Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene
39. Civil Religion in America 40. Shamanic practices and the state in northern Asia: veiws from the center and periphery
41. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China
42. Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo
43. Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains
44. Candomble in pink, green and black: re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian religious heritage in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia
45. Martyr vs. martyr: the sacred language of violence.
46. Evidence and presence, spectral and other.
1. Religion in Primitive Culture
2. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
3. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
4. Religion as a Cultural System
Skeptical Rejoinders
5. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
6. Religion, Totemism and Symbolism
7. Remarks on the verb "to believe"
8. Christians as Believers
9. The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category
Pt. II. Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds
10. The Logic of Signs and Symbols
11. The Problem of Symbols
12. On Key Symbols
13. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol
Structure, Function, and Interpretation
14. Myth in Primitive Psychology
15. Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture
16. Land Animals, Pure and Impure
17. A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo
18. Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre
Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder
19. The Winnebago Trickster Figure
20. Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief
21. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
Conceptualizing the Cosmos
22. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual
23. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perpectivism
Pt. III. Praxis: Religious Action
The Movement of Ritual: Emergence
24. The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action
25. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts
26. Liminality and Communitas
Gender, subjectivity, and the body
27. "Jewish comes up in you from the roots"
28. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure
29. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
30. Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance
31. The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination
What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order
32. The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process
33. Enactments of Meaning
Pt. IV. Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change
Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict
34. New heaven, new Earth
35. The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money
36. The Colonization of Consciousness
37. Convicted by the Holy Spirit: the rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist conversion
38. On being Shege in Kinshasa: children, the occult and the street
Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene
39. Civil Religion in America 40. Shamanic practices and the state in northern Asia: veiws from the center and periphery
41. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China
42. Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo
43. Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains
44. Candomble in pink, green and black: re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian religious heritage in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia
45. Martyr vs. martyr: the sacred language of violence.
46. Evidence and presence, spectral and other.