General Exam Bibliography for 2006-07
1 Religious Studies
1.1 Walter Capps. Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline. Philadelphia: Augsburg Fortress. 0800625358, 368 pp. $40.50.
1.2 Pals, Daniel L. Eight Theories of Religion. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006. 0195304586. 368 pp. $68.50.
1.3 Darlene Juschka. Feminism in the Study of Religion: A Reader.
Continuum, 2001. 0826447279; 14 of the 31 chapters as follows:
General Introduction (1-22), 2 (61-80), 3 (81-105), 6 (147-156), 7
(168-179), 8 (180-197), 11 (239-251), 13 (292-313), 17 (386-410), 19
(434-451), 23 (510-538), 25 (571-590), 26 (591-628), 27 (629-647),
31 (676-693); 295 of the 700 pages. $42.95.
1.4 Jose Casanova. Public Religions in the Modern World. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994. 0226095355, 330 pp. $24.45.
1.5 H. Russell Bernard. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative
and Quantitative Approaches. Fourth edition. Walnut Grove, CA:
AltaMira, 2006. 0759108692; skip chapters 6-8, 12, 19-21, and
appendices except F; 464 of 801 pp. $62.92.
1.6 Kevin Christiano, and others. Sociology of Religion: Contemporary
Developments. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2002. 0759100357, 384
pp. $61.07.
1.7 Raymojund F. Paloutzian. Invitation to the Psychology of Religion. 2nd
ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996. 0205148409, 304 pp. $74.95.
1.8 Talal Asad. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in
Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1993. 0801846323, 348 pp. $27.50.
1.9 Clifford Geertz. Religion as Cultural System. The Interpretation of
Cultures. New York: Basic, 1973. 0465097197, 38 pp. $27.30.
1.10 Charles Taylor and Amy Gutmann. Multiculturalism and "the Politics of
Recognition:" an Essay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1992. 0691087865, 112 pp. $23.50.
1.11 Peter Beyer. Religion and Globalization. London: Sage Publications,
1994. 0803989164, 250 pp. $55.95.
1.12 David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal. American Sacred Space.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995. 0253210062, 352
pp. $24.39.
1.13 Lorne L. Dawson. Comprehending Cults: The Sociology of New Religious
Movements. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. 0195411544, 231
pp. $32.50.
1.14 Grimes, Ronald L. Rite out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 978-0-19-530145. 224 pp.
$22.84.
1.15 Peter L. Berger. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological
Theory of Religion. Anchor, 1990. 0385073054, 229 pp. $14.40.
1.16 Steve Bruce. God Is Dead: Secularization in the West. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2002. 0631232753, 269 pp. $38.95.
1.17 Rodney Stark and Roger Finke. Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human
Side of Religion. Berkeley, California: University of California Press,
2000. 0520222024; 83-168, 193-258 (chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, 9).
$27.00.
1.18 David Lyon and Marguerite Van Die. Rethinking Church, State, and
Modernity: Canada between Europe and the United States. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2000. 0802082130, 42 out of 353 pp.
$27.95.
1.19 Russell McCutcheon. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui
Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia. 2003. 0195166639, 272
pp. $87.50.
1.20 Wilfred Cantwell Smith. The Meaning and End of Religion. Minneapolis:
Fortress, 1991 [1962]. 0800624750, 340 pp. $18.68.
2 Religious diversity in North America
2.1 Catherine L. Albanese. America: Religions and Religion. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth, 1981. 053400928X, 389 pp. $89.20.
2.2 Albert J. Raboteau. Canaan Land: A Religious History of African
Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 0195145852,
151 pp. $12.76.
2.3 Karen McCarthy Brown. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn.
Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.
0520077806, 432 pp. $25.50.
2.4 Sylvia Fishman Barack. Jewish Life and American Culture. SUNY
Press, 2000. 0791445461, 242 pp. $9.77.
2.5 Janet McLellan. Many Petals of the Lotus: Five Asian Buddhist
Communities in Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
0802082254, 352 pp. $27.95.
2.6 Thomas A. Tweed. Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban
Catholic Shrine in Miami. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
0195155939, 240 pp. $48.50.
2.7 Raymond Brady Williams. Religions of Immigrants from India and
Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1988. 0521359619, 326 pp. $46.95.
2.8 Thomas C. Parkhill. Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey
Leland, 'Indians' and the Study of Native American Religions. Albany,
NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. 0791434540, 238 pp.
$26.84.
2.9 Paul Bramadat and David Seljak. Religion and Ethnicity in Canada.
Pearson Education Canada, 2004. 0321248414, 320 pp. $43.95.
2.10 Charles S. Prebish and Martin Baumann. Westward Dharma : Buddhism
Beyond Asia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
0520234901, 425 pp. $29.75.
2.11 Mary Jo Neitz. Charisma and Community: A Study of Religious
Commitment within the Charismatic Renewal. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction, 1987. 0887381308, 294 pp. $54.96.
2.12 Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. The Muslims of America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991. 0195067282, 249 pp. $42.00.
2.13 Helen A. Berger. A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo4
Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press, 1999. 1-57003-246-7, 148 pp.
$21.36.
2.14 John R. Hall, and others. Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements
and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan. New York:
Routledge, 2000. 0-415-19277-3, 228 pp. $38.95.
2.15 Paul Bramadat. The Church on the World's Turf: An Evangelical
Christian Group at a Secular University. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000. 0195134990, 182 pp. $78.95.
2.16 Lyden, John C. Film As Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals. New York:
New York University Press, 2003. 0-814-75181-4. 287 pp. $22.90.