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Anthropology and religion. Words and things ; Is religion a human universal? ; The meaning of religion ; Tylor's definition ; Do all peoples distinguish between "natural" and "supernatural"? ; The Durkheimian approach ; The anthropology of religion ; Types of anthropological studies of religion ; Types of religion ; Prehistoric religion ; Ancient religions ; Indigenous religions of small-scale societies ; The world religions ; Religions versus religion Religion here and there. Religion is primarily a matter of belief or faith ; Religion and identity : one at a time ; Religion is a separate realm of life ; Religion is associated with a special building ; Religion concerns transcendental rather than practical matters ; Practical religion among Latin American immigrants in Los Angeles ; Religion is the basis of morality
Religion, evolution, and prehistory. The bio-evolution of religion ; When did religion develop? ; Neanderthal burials, ritual cannibalism, and cave bear cults ; Religion in the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Europe ; The origin of religion : how it began ; Psychological and sociological theories ; Altered-states-of-consciousness explanations ; Ritual as the origin of religion ; The nature of early religion ; Has religion evolved? ; The evolution of belief ; Religion and society.
Religion, adaptation, and the environment. Ecological functionalism : Naskapi hunting divination ; Religion as a regulator of ecological processes ; Ritual as a thermostat ; Balinese temples as regulators of irrigation systems ; Cultural materialist explanations of seemingly maladaptive ritual practices (or, solving the riddles of culture) ; Ceremonies can help populations adapt to available resources : the potlatch ; Pig hate and pig love ; The pig and the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia ; Religion and environmentalism ; Religion promotes sound environmental practices ; Religious beliefs and practices that do not support good environmental practices ; Religion and the ecological Indian ; Religion and the decline and collapse of societies ; The problem of reaching conclusions about religion and adaptation
Natural symbols. What are natural symbols? ; Animals ; Why animals are important as symbols ; Snakes ; Birds ; Colors ; Lateral symbolism : left- and right-handedness ; Percussion sounds ; The head and its parts ; Hair ; The skull, head-hunting, and scalping ; The eye ; Natural symbols and natural religion.
Myth and ritual, old and new. What more exactly is myth? ; Theories, approaches, and explanations of myth ; William Robertson Smith and myth-ritualism ; Lévi-Strauss and the structural study of myth ; The protagonists of myth ; The hero ; The trickster ; Trickster animals in Japan ; Myth and gender ; Contemporary urban myth ; Rumor myths ; Government head-hunting and construction sacrifice
Ritual and belief. The nature of ritual ; Religious ritual ; Positive and negative dimensions of ritual ; Some common features of religious ritual activity ; Elementary ritual actions ; More complex ritual activity ; Some common types of ritual ; Ritual and time ; The structure of ritual according to Arnold van Gennep ; Journeys and boundaries ; Pilgrimage ; Rites of passage ; Pregnancy and childbirth ; Coming-of-age and marriage ; Mortuary ritual ; Notions of the soul and the afterlife ; Bad death ; Funerals as rites of passages ; Two-stage mortuary practices ; Two-stage mortuary practices in the central highlands of Vietnam.
Witchcraft and sorcery : past and present, far and near. Traditional witchcraft ant sorcery in small-scale societies ; Bird flu and witchcraft in contemporary Cambodia ; The Azande and other African groups ; The Navajo ; Witchcraft in Melanesia and Southeast Asia ; Witchcraft in late medieval and early modern Europe ; Organized witchcraft did not exist ; Witchcraft was actually class struggle ; Witchcraft was pre-Christian religion ; Witchcraft beliefs, experiences, and hallucination ; Modern witchcraft or neo-Paganism ; Modern English witchcraft ; Modern American witchcraft
Spirit possession, spirit mediumship, and shamanism. Spirit possession and spirit mediumship ; Spirit mediumship or voluntary possession ; Involuntary spirit possession as psychopathology and spirit mediumship as psychotherapy ; Involuntary spirit possession as protest and empowerment ; Spirit possession among Malay schoolgirls and factory workers in Malaysia ; Shamanism ; The work and influence of Mircea Eliade ; Defining shamanism broadly or narrowly ; The basic features of shamanism ; The occurrence of shamanism ; Shamanism, modes of adaptation, and levels of social, political, and religious organization and gender ; Shamanism as a Paleolithic religion ; Shamania : the controversy over prehistoric art and shamanism ; Neo-Shamanism : Carlos Castaneda and Michael Harner ; Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan ; Michael Harner and the foundation for shamanic studies.
Religious movements and the origins of religion. Three Native American movements ; The Delaware prophet ; James Mooney and the Ghost Dance ; Peyotism and the Native American church ; Cargo movements in Melanesia ; The Tuka movement in Fiji ; The notion of cargo ; The logic of cargo movements ; Later cargo cults and nationalist movements ; The Bungan movement in the interior of Borneo ; Revitalization ; A reevaluation of the theory of revitalization
Anthropology and religion in a global context : the world religions, conversion, and complexity. The world religions from an anthropological perspective ; Named identity ; Sacred texts, written languages, and restricted literacy ; Universality and localization ; Colonialism, diaspora and the world religions ; Evangelism ; Suffering and salvation ; The anthropological study of the world religions ; Theoretical developments ; Religion, society, and civilization in rural Java ; Buddhism and the spirit cults among the Burmese ; Gender and religion in Korea ; The conversion of indigenous peoples to and within the world religions ; The conversion of indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia ; Conversion to Christianity in Northern Thailand ; The conversion from Roman Catholicism to Evangelistic Protestantism in Mexico and Central America.
Religion, evolution, and prehistory. The bio-evolution of religion ; When did religion develop? ; Neanderthal burials, ritual cannibalism, and cave bear cults ; Religion in the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Europe ; The origin of religion : how it began ; Psychological and sociological theories ; Altered-states-of-consciousness explanations ; Ritual as the origin of religion ; The nature of early religion ; Has religion evolved? ; The evolution of belief ; Religion and society.
Religion, adaptation, and the environment. Ecological functionalism : Naskapi hunting divination ; Religion as a regulator of ecological processes ; Ritual as a thermostat ; Balinese temples as regulators of irrigation systems ; Cultural materialist explanations of seemingly maladaptive ritual practices (or, solving the riddles of culture) ; Ceremonies can help populations adapt to available resources : the potlatch ; Pig hate and pig love ; The pig and the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia ; Religion and environmentalism ; Religion promotes sound environmental practices ; Religious beliefs and practices that do not support good environmental practices ; Religion and the ecological Indian ; Religion and the decline and collapse of societies ; The problem of reaching conclusions about religion and adaptation
Natural symbols. What are natural symbols? ; Animals ; Why animals are important as symbols ; Snakes ; Birds ; Colors ; Lateral symbolism : left- and right-handedness ; Percussion sounds ; The head and its parts ; Hair ; The skull, head-hunting, and scalping ; The eye ; Natural symbols and natural religion.
Myth and ritual, old and new. What more exactly is myth? ; Theories, approaches, and explanations of myth ; William Robertson Smith and myth-ritualism ; Lévi-Strauss and the structural study of myth ; The protagonists of myth ; The hero ; The trickster ; Trickster animals in Japan ; Myth and gender ; Contemporary urban myth ; Rumor myths ; Government head-hunting and construction sacrifice
Ritual and belief. The nature of ritual ; Religious ritual ; Positive and negative dimensions of ritual ; Some common features of religious ritual activity ; Elementary ritual actions ; More complex ritual activity ; Some common types of ritual ; Ritual and time ; The structure of ritual according to Arnold van Gennep ; Journeys and boundaries ; Pilgrimage ; Rites of passage ; Pregnancy and childbirth ; Coming-of-age and marriage ; Mortuary ritual ; Notions of the soul and the afterlife ; Bad death ; Funerals as rites of passages ; Two-stage mortuary practices ; Two-stage mortuary practices in the central highlands of Vietnam.
Witchcraft and sorcery : past and present, far and near. Traditional witchcraft ant sorcery in small-scale societies ; Bird flu and witchcraft in contemporary Cambodia ; The Azande and other African groups ; The Navajo ; Witchcraft in Melanesia and Southeast Asia ; Witchcraft in late medieval and early modern Europe ; Organized witchcraft did not exist ; Witchcraft was actually class struggle ; Witchcraft was pre-Christian religion ; Witchcraft beliefs, experiences, and hallucination ; Modern witchcraft or neo-Paganism ; Modern English witchcraft ; Modern American witchcraft
Spirit possession, spirit mediumship, and shamanism. Spirit possession and spirit mediumship ; Spirit mediumship or voluntary possession ; Involuntary spirit possession as psychopathology and spirit mediumship as psychotherapy ; Involuntary spirit possession as protest and empowerment ; Spirit possession among Malay schoolgirls and factory workers in Malaysia ; Shamanism ; The work and influence of Mircea Eliade ; Defining shamanism broadly or narrowly ; The basic features of shamanism ; The occurrence of shamanism ; Shamanism, modes of adaptation, and levels of social, political, and religious organization and gender ; Shamanism as a Paleolithic religion ; Shamania : the controversy over prehistoric art and shamanism ; Neo-Shamanism : Carlos Castaneda and Michael Harner ; Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan ; Michael Harner and the foundation for shamanic studies.
Religious movements and the origins of religion. Three Native American movements ; The Delaware prophet ; James Mooney and the Ghost Dance ; Peyotism and the Native American church ; Cargo movements in Melanesia ; The Tuka movement in Fiji ; The notion of cargo ; The logic of cargo movements ; Later cargo cults and nationalist movements ; The Bungan movement in the interior of Borneo ; Revitalization ; A reevaluation of the theory of revitalization
Anthropology and religion in a global context : the world religions, conversion, and complexity. The world religions from an anthropological perspective ; Named identity ; Sacred texts, written languages, and restricted literacy ; Universality and localization ; Colonialism, diaspora and the world religions ; Evangelism ; Suffering and salvation ; The anthropological study of the world religions ; Theoretical developments ; Religion, society, and civilization in rural Java ; Buddhism and the spirit cults among the Burmese ; Gender and religion in Korea ; The conversion of indigenous peoples to and within the world religions ; The conversion of indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia ; Conversion to Christianity in Northern Thailand ; The conversion from Roman Catholicism to Evangelistic Protestantism in Mexico and Central America.