Ritual and belief: readings in the anthropology of religion (2nd ed )

This revision of our highly successful First Edition reader for the Anthropology of Religion course includes eleven all-new articles, new "Religion in the News" boxes in every chapter, significantly expanded "Introductions" to every chapter, a brand-new chapter on modern cults, a list of website resources for every chapter, an improved glossary, and expanded "Commentaries".

Chapter 1: Perspectives Reading 1-1: Edward B. Tylor: Animism Reading 1-2: Sigmund Freud: The Return of Totemism in Childhood Reading 1-3: Emile Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life Reading 1-4: Robin Horton: Neo-Tylorianism Ask Yourself Chapter 2: Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification Reading 2-1: Bronsilaw Malinowski: The Role of Myth in Life Reading 2-2: Edmund Leach: Genesis as Myth Reading 2-3: Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen: The Dogon Reading 2-4: Mary Douglas: Pollution Religion in the News: A Legendary Hero Guides a Reborn Kygyszstan Chapter 3: Gods, Spirits, and Souls Reading 3-1: James G. Frazer: Magic and Religion Reading 3-2: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Problem of Symbols Reading 3-3: John Beattie: The Ghost Cult in Bunyoro Reading 3-4: Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, and Christopher F. Tilley: The Universality of Ancester Worship Ask Yourself Chapter 4: Ritual Reading 4-1: Edmund R. Leach: Ritual Reading 4-2: Victor Turner: Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu Reading 4-3: Arnold van Gennep: Conclusions Reading 4-5: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Morphology and Function of Magic: A Comparative Study Of Trobriand and Zande Ritual and Spells Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention Chapter 5: Practitioners of Ritual Reading 5-1: Victor W. Turner: Religious Specialists Reading 5-2: Margery Wolf: The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman Reading 5-3: Michael J. Harner: The Sound of Rushing Water Reading 5-4: Claude Levi-Strauss: The Sorcerer and His Magic Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention Chapter 6: Body and Mind Reading 6-1: Napoleon A. Chagnon: My Adventure with Ebene: A Religious Experience' Reading 6-2: Beth A. Conklin: 'Thus are Our Bodies, Thus was Our Custom:' Mortuary Cannibalism in An Amazonian Society Reading 6-3: Leonie J. Archer: 'In thy blood live': Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition Reading 6-4: William K. Powers: The Sweat Lodge: Inside Ask Yourself Chapter 7: Magic and Witchcraft Reading 7-1: James G. Frazer: Sympathetic Magic Reading 7-2: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them Reading 7-3: Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum: Witchcraft and Social Identity Reading 7-4: Rodney Needham: Synthetic Images Chapter 8: Death Reading 8-1: Walter W. Whitaker III: The Contemporary American Funeral Ritual Reading 8-2: Walter B. Cannon: 'Voodoo' Death Reading 8-3: Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington: Symbolic Associations of Death Reading 8-4: David Hicks: Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor Ask Yourself Chapter 9: Sexuality and Gender Reading 9-1: Peggy Reeves Sanday: Epilogue Reading 9-2: Eric R. Wolf: The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol Reading 9-3: Serena Nanda: The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role Reading 9-4: Stansilav Andreski: The Syphilitic Shock Ask Yourself Chapter 10: The Natural Environment Reading 10-1: G. Reichel-Dolmatoff: Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest Reading 10-2: Roy A. Rappaport: Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People Reading 10-3: Takashi Irimoto: Ainu Worldview and Bear Hunting Strategies Reading 10-4: Evon Z. Vogt: Walter Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community Ask Yourself Chapter 11: Agents of Change Reading 11-1: Max Weber: Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic Order Reading 11-2: Anthony F.C. Wallace: Revitalization Movements Reading 11-3: Peter M. Worsely: Cargo Cults Reading 11-4: Alice Beck Kehoe: The Ghost Dance Religion Religion in the News: German Rite of Passage Ask Yourself Chapter 12: New Religious Movements Reading 12-1: John R. Hall: Apocalypse at Jonestown Reading 12-2: Eileen Barker: The Unification Church Reading 12-3: Loretta Orion: The Transforming Influence of American Gatherings Reading 12-4: Barry Chavannes: The Rastafari Abroad Religion in the News: An Apocalyptic Mystery Ask Yourself Glossary References Acknowledgements Index