Ritual and Belief (eBook, ePUB)

Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
Redaktion: Hicks, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its companion chapters, which are pedagogically coherent rather than ad hoc assemblages. Included among the theoretical perspectives are structural-functionalism, structuralism, Malinowskian functionalism, cultural materialism, and cultural evolutionism; also included are the synchronic and diachronic approaches. The book offers a mixture of classic readings and more recent contributions, and the "world religions" are included along with examples from the religions of traditionally non-literate cultures. As diverse a range of religious traditions as possible has been embraced, from various ethnic groups, traditions, and places.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759118577
• Artikelnr.: 38221545

Autorenporträt

David Hicks is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Chapter 1. Perspectives
Chapter 3 Reading 1-1 Edward B. Tylor: Animism
Chapter 4 Reading 1-2 Sigmund Freud: The Return of Totenism in Childhood
Chapter 5 Reading 1-3 Emile Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of the Religious
Life
Part 6 Chapter 2. Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification
Chapter 7 Reading 2-1 Claude Lévi-Strauss: Harelips and Twins: The
Splitting of a Myth
Chapter 8 Reading 2-2 Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen: The Dogon
Chapter 9 Reading 2-3 Mary Douglas: Pollution
Part 10 Chapter 3. Gods, Spirits, and Souls
Chapter 11 Reading 3-1 Jack Goody: A Kernel of Doubt
Chapter 12 Reading 3-2 Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, and Christopher
F. Tilley: The Universality of Ancestor Worship
Chapter 13 Reading 3-3 Pascal Boyer: What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural:
Intuitive Ontology and Cultural Representations
Part 14 Chapter 4. Ritual
Chapter 15 Reading 4-1 Victor W. Turner: Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and
Social Structure among the Ndembu
Chapter 16 Reading 4-2 Arnold van Gennep: The Rites of Passage: Conclusions
Chapter 17 Reading 4-3 Heiko Henkel: "Between Belief and Unbelief Lies the
Performance of Salat": Meaning and Efficacy of a Muslim Ritual
Part 18 Chapter 5. Practitioners of Ritual
Chapter 19 Reading 5-1 Victor W. Turner: Religious Specialists
Chapter 20 Reading 5-2 Margery Wolf: The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman
Chapter 21 Reading 5-3 Michael J. Harner: The Sound of Rushing Water
Part 22 Chapter 6. Body and Mind
Chapter 23 Reading 6-1 Napolean A. Chagnon: My Adventure with Ebene: A
"Religious Experience"
Chapter 24 Reading 6-2 Beth A. Conklin: "Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our
Custom": Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Chapter 25 Reading 6-3 Leonie J. Archer: "In Thy Blood Live": Gender and
Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition
Part 26 Chapter 7. Magic and Witchcraft
Chapter 27 Reading 7-1 James G. Frazer: Sympathetic Magic
Chapter 28 Reading 7-2 E. E. Evans-Pritchard: Men Bewitch Others When They
Hate Them
Chapter 29 Reading 7-3 George Gmelch: Baseball Magic
Part 30 Chapter 8. Death
Chapter 31 Reading 8-1 Walter B. Cannon: "Voodoo" Death
Chapter 32 Reading 8-2 Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington: Symbolic
Associations of Death
Chapter 33 Reading 8-3 David Hicks: Making the King Divine: A Case Study in
Ritual Regicide from Timor
Part 34 Chapter 9. Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 35 Reading 9-1 Eric R. Wolf: The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican
National Symbol
Chapter 36 Reading 9-2 Serena Nanda: The Hijras of India: Cultural and
Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role
Chapter 37 Reading 9-3 Stanislav Andreski: The Syphilitic Shock
Part 38 Chapter 10. The Natural Environment
Chapter 39 Reading 10-1 G. Reichel-Dolmatoff: Cosmology as Ecological
Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest
Chapter 40 Reading 10-2 Roy A. Rappaport: Ritual Regulation of
Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People
Chapter 41 Reading 10-3 Evon Z. Vogt: Water Witching: An Interpretation of
a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community
Part 42 Chapter 11. Agents of Change
Chapter 43 Reading 11-1 Max Weber: Judaism, Christianity, and the
Socio-Economic Order
Chapter 44 Reading 11-2 Anthony F. C. Wallace: Revitalization Movements
Chapter 45 Reading 11-3 Peter M. Worsley: Cargo Cults
Part 46 Chapter 12. New Religious Movements
Chapter 47 Reading 12-1 John R. Hall: Apocalypse at Jonestown
Chapter 48 Reading 12-2 Eileen Barker: The Unification Church
Chapter 49 Reading 12-3 Omri Elisha: Faith beyond Belief: Evangelical
Protestant Conceptions of Faith and the Resonance of Anti-Humanism
Part 50 Glossary
Part 51 General References