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The anthropology of religion, magic, and witchcraft /

The text examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective while incorporating key theoretical concepts. In addition to providing a basic overview of anthropology, including definition of key terms and exposure to ethnographies, the text exposes students to the varying complexity of w...

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Основен автор: Stein, Rebecca L., 1970-
Други автори: Stein, Philip L.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2011.
Издание: 3rd ed.
Предмети:
Religion.
Anthropology of religion.
Religion and culture.
Съдържание:
  • 1. The anthropological study of religion
  • Anthropological perspective
  • Holistic approach
  • Study of human societies
  • The Fore of New Guinea : an ethnographic example
  • Two ways of viewing culture
  • Cultural relativism
  • Karen McCarthy Brown and Vodou
  • Concept of culture
  • Study of religion
  • Attempts at defining religion
  • Domain of religion
  • Theoretical approaches to the study of religion
  • Malinowski and the Trobriand Islands
  • Evans-Pritchard and the Azande
  • Biological basis of religious behavior
  • 2. Mythology
  • The nature of myths
  • Worldview
  • Stories of the supernatural
  • The nature of oral texts
  • Genesis
  • The gender-neutral Christian Bible
  • Understanding myths
  • Approaches to analysis of myths
  • The Gururumba creation story
  • Common themes in myths
  • The Navaho creation story : Diné bahanè
  • The raven steals the light
  • Joseph Campbell
  • 3. Religious symbols
  • What is a symbol?
  • Religious toys and games
  • Sacred Art
  • The sarcophagus of Lord Pakal
  • The meaning of color
  • Sacred time and sacred space
  • The meaning of time
  • The end of time
  • Sacred time and space in Australia
  • The symbolism of music and dance
  • 4. Ritual
  • The basics of ritual performance
  • Prescriptive and situational rituals
  • Periodic and occasional rituals
  • A classification of rituals
  • A survey of rituals
  • Technological rituals
  • Social rites of intensification
  • Therapy rituals and healing
  • Salvation rituals
  • Revitalization rituals
  • Rites of passage
  • Alterations of the human body
  • Pilgrimages
  • The Hajj
  • The Huichol pilgrimage
  • Religious obligations
  • Tabu
  • Jewish food laws
  • Menstrual tabus
  • 5. Altered states of consciousness
  • The nature of altered states of consciousness
  • Entering an altered state of consciousness
  • The biological basis of altered states of consciousness
  • Altered states in Upper Paleolithic Art
  • Drug-induced altered states
  • The Native American Church
  • Ethnographic examples of altered states of consciousness
  • The Holiness churches
  • San healing rituals
  • The Sun Dance of the Cheyenne
  • Religious use of drugs in South America
  • Rastafarians
  • 6. Religious specialists
  • Shamans
  • Defining Shamanism
  • Siberian Shamanism
  • Korean Shamanism
  • Pentecostal healers or shamans
  • Neoshamanism
  • Clown doctors as shamans
  • Priests
  • Zuni priests
  • Okinawan priestesses
  • Eastern Orthodox priests
  • Other specialists
  • Healers and diviners
  • African healers meet Western medicine
  • Prophets
  • 7. Magic and divination
  • The world of magic
  • Magic and religion
  • Magic and science
  • Rules of magic
  • The function of magic
  • Why magic works
  • Magic in society
  • Magic in the Trobriand Islands
  • Trobriand Island magic
  • Magic among the Azande
  • Sorcery among the Fore
  • Wiccan magic
  • Divination
  • Forms of divination
  • Divination techniques
  • I ching : the book of changes
  • Fore divination
  • Oracles of the Azande
  • Divination in Ancient Greece : the Oracle at Delphi
  • Astrology
  • 8. Souls, ghosts, and death
  • Souls and ancestors
  • Variation in the concept of the soul
  • Souls, death, and the afterlife
  • Examples of concepts of the soul
  • How do you get to Heaven?
  • Ancestors
  • Determining death
  • Bodies and souls
  • Ghosts
  • The living dead : vampires and zombies
  • Funeral rituals
  • Disposal of the body
  • U.S. death rituals in the Nineteenth Century
  • U.S. funeral rituals today
  • Days of death
  • Roadside memorials
  • 9. Gods and spirits
  • Spirits
  • The Dani view of the supernatural
  • Guardian spirits and the Native American Vision Quest
  • Jinn
  • Christian angels and demons
  • Gods
  • Christian demonic exorcism in the United States
  • Types of gods
  • Gods and society
  • Games and gods
  • The gods of the Yoruba
  • The gods of the Ifugao
  • Goddesses
  • Monotheism : conceptions of God in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • Atheism
  • 10. Witchcraft
  • The concept of witchcraft in small-scale societies
  • Witchcraft among the Azande
  • Witchcraft among the Navaho
  • Witchcraft reflects human culture
  • Sorcery, witchcraft, and AIDS
  • Euro-American witchcraft beliefs
  • The connection with pagan religions
  • The witchcraze in Europe
  • The witchcraze in England and the United States
  • The evil eye
  • Modern-day witch hunts
  • 11. The search for new meaning
  • Adaptation and change
  • Mechanisms of culture change
  • Haitian Vodou
  • Santeria
  • Revitalization movements
  • The origins of revitalization movements
  • Types of revitalization movements
  • Cargo cults
  • The John Frum Cult
  • The Ghost Dance of 1890
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism)
  • Neo-paganism and revival
  • The Wiccan movement
  • New religious movements
  • The "cult" question
  • Characteristics of high demand religions
  • Examples of new religious movements
  • UFO religions
  • Fundamentalism
  • Characteristics of fundamentalist groups
  • Religious violence and terrorism.

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