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Introduction / Jacob K. Olupona
PART I. MODERNITY AND METHODOLOGY
Do Jews make good Protestants? The cross-cultural study of ritual / Naomi Janowitz
Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes of indigenous religions in the academic study of religion / Armin W. Geertz
"Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Müller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion / David Chidester
A postcolonial meaning of religion: some reflections from the indigenous world / Charles H. Long
Saami responses to Christianity: resistance and change / Håkan Rydving
PART II. THE AMERICAS
Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western discourse on religion / John C. Mohawk
Guidelines for the study of Mesoamerican religious traditions / Alfredo López Austin
Jaguar Christians in the contact zone: concealed narratives in the histories of religions in the Americas / David Carrasco
Modernity, resistance, and the Iroquois Longhouse people / Chris Jocks
"He, not they, best protected the village": religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala / Bruce Lincoln
Vodou in the "Tenth Department": New York's Haitian community / Karen McCarthy Brown
Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana / Helen McCarthy
PART III. AFRICA AND ASIA
Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
The Earth Mother Scripture: unmasking the neo-archaic / Whalen W. Lai
Popular religions and modernity in Japan / Michio Araki
Rethinking indigenous religious traditions: the case of the Ainu / Katarina V. Sjöberg
Korean shamans and the definition of "religion": a view from the grass roots / Laurel Kendall
Mandaya myth, memory, and the heroic religious tradition: between Islam and Christianity / Aram A. Yengoyan
The Vaddas: representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka / Gananath Obeyesekere
PART IV. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
On wondering about wonder: Melanesians and the cargo / Garry W. Trompf
Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia / Mary N. MacDonald
The Hawaiian lei on a voyage through modernities: a study in post-contact religion / Steven J. Friesen.
PART I. MODERNITY AND METHODOLOGY
Do Jews make good Protestants? The cross-cultural study of ritual / Naomi Janowitz
Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes of indigenous religions in the academic study of religion / Armin W. Geertz
"Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Müller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion / David Chidester
A postcolonial meaning of religion: some reflections from the indigenous world / Charles H. Long
Saami responses to Christianity: resistance and change / Håkan Rydving
PART II. THE AMERICAS
Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western discourse on religion / John C. Mohawk
Guidelines for the study of Mesoamerican religious traditions / Alfredo López Austin
Jaguar Christians in the contact zone: concealed narratives in the histories of religions in the Americas / David Carrasco
Modernity, resistance, and the Iroquois Longhouse people / Chris Jocks
"He, not they, best protected the village": religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala / Bruce Lincoln
Vodou in the "Tenth Department": New York's Haitian community / Karen McCarthy Brown
Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana / Helen McCarthy
PART III. AFRICA AND ASIA
Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
The Earth Mother Scripture: unmasking the neo-archaic / Whalen W. Lai
Popular religions and modernity in Japan / Michio Araki
Rethinking indigenous religious traditions: the case of the Ainu / Katarina V. Sjöberg
Korean shamans and the definition of "religion": a view from the grass roots / Laurel Kendall
Mandaya myth, memory, and the heroic religious tradition: between Islam and Christianity / Aram A. Yengoyan
The Vaddas: representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka / Gananath Obeyesekere
PART IV. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
On wondering about wonder: Melanesians and the cargo / Garry W. Trompf
Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia / Mary N. MacDonald
The Hawaiian lei on a voyage through modernities: a study in post-contact religion / Steven J. Friesen.