| Bibliography of Anthropology of Religion
For more titles, visit http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/subject/essayonreli.html Anthologies Hicks, David. 2002 Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion. 2nd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill. Lehman, Arthur C., James Myers, and Pamela Moro, eds. 2005 Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural. Sixth edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill. Lessa, William and Evon Vogt, eds. 1977 Reader in Comparative Religion. 4th ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon. Traditional pre-1970 Aberle, David F. 1966 The Peyote Religion among the Navaho. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Berger, Peter. 1967 The Sacred Canopy. New York: Basic Books. Douglas, Mary. 1970 Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Durkheim, Emile 1963 (1915) Elementary Forms of the Religious Life . Joseph Swain, trans. London: Allen and Unwin. Eliade, Mircea. 1959 The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. New York: Harcourt, Brace. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1956 Nuer Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1965 Theories of Primitive Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Freud, Sigmund.1938 (1913) Totem and Taboo. J. Strachy, trans. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Geertz, Clifford. 1960 The Religion of Java. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press. 1968 Islam Observed: Religious Developments in Morocco and Indonesia. New Haven: Yale University Press. Gluckman, Max. 1962 Essays on the Ritual of Social Relations. Max Gluckman, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Kluckhohn, Clyde. 1956 The Navaho. New York: Doubleday. Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1963 Totemism. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1969 The Raw and the Cooked. New York: Harper and Row. Lienhardt, Godfrey. 1961 Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lowie, Robert H. 1948 (1924) Primitive Religion. New York: Liveright. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1955 (1925) Magic, Science and Religion. New York: Doubleday. Middleton, John. 1960 Lugbara Religion: Ritual and Authority among an East African People. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Middleton, John, ed. 1967 Gods and Rituals. Garden City, New York: The Natural History Press. Nadel, S. F. 1952 �Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison.� American Anthropologist 54: 18-29. Radin, Paul. 1957 (1937) Primitive Religion: Its Nature and Origin. New York: Dover. Smith, W. Robertson. 1956 (1889) The Religion of the Semites. New York: Meridian Books. Spiro, Melford. 1952 Ghosts, Ifaluk, and teleological functionalism. Bobbs-Merrill. Turner, Victor. 1967 Forest of Symbols. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine Publishing. Wallace, Anthony F.C. 1966 Religion: An Anthropological View. New York: Random House. Weber, Max. 1958 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Scribner's. 1964 Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press. Contemporary post-1970 Asad, Talal. 1979 �Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology.� Man 14: 607-627. 1983 �Anthropological Conceptions of Religion: Reflections on Geertz.� Man 18: 237- 259. Babb, Lawrence A. 1975 The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India. New York: Columbia University Press. Barker, Eileen, ed. 1982 New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society. New York: Edwin Mellen Press. Bellah, Robert. 1970 Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World. New York: Harper and Row. Black Elk 1972 (1932) Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. John G. Neihardt, trans. New York: William Morrow & Co. Bloch, Maurice. 1989 Ritual, History, and Power: Selected Papers in Anthropology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press. Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum 1974 Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Burkert, Walter, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith 1987 Violent Origins: Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Cohn, Norman 1970 Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press. Crapanzano, Vincent and V. Garrison, eds. 1977 Case Studies in Spirit Possession. New York: John Wiley. Geertz, Clifford. 1981. Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth Century Bali. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Kertzer, David. 1988 Ritual, Politics, and Power. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Keyes, Charles F. and E. Valentine Daniel, eds. 1983 Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Berkeley: University of California Press. Kirk, John. 1989 Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Cuba. Tampa: University of Southern Florida Press. Myerhoff, Barbara G. 1974 Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichul Indians. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Obeyesekre, Gananath. 1981 Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Ortner, Sherry. 1978 Sherpas through Their Rituals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sahlins, Marshall. 1981 Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Skorupski, John. 1976 Symbol and Theory: A Philosophical Study of Theories of Religion in Social Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sperber, Dan. 1975 Rethinking Symbolism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Spiro, Melford. 1982. Buddhism and Society. University of California Press. Tambiah, Stanley. 1970 Buddhism and Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Taussig, Michael. 1987 Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
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