Introductory Anthropology Textbooks

Angrosino, Michael V., 2004, The Culture of the Sacred: Exploring the Anthropology of Religion, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Bennett, Clinton, 1996. In Search of the Sacred: Anthropology and the Study of Religion, London, UK: Cassell.

Bowen, John R., 2005. Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion. New York, NY: Pearson(Third Edition).

Bowie, Fiona, 2000. The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction. New York, NY: Blackwell.

Child, Alice B., and Irvin L. Child, 1993. Religion and Magic in the Life of Traditional Peoples. Englewood CLiffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Crapo, Richley H., Anthropology of Religion: The Unity and Diversity of Religions, New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Firth, Raymond, 1996. Religion: A Humanist Interpretation. New York, NY: Routledge.

Gill, Sam D., 1982. Beyond the Primitive: The Religion of Nonliterate People. Englewood CLiffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Howells, William White, 1948. The Heathens: Primitive Man and His Religion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Klass, Morton, 1995. Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Lowie, Robert H., 1924. Primitive Religion. New York, NY: Liveright.

Malefijt, Annemarie de Waal, 1968. Religion and Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion, New York, NY: The Macmillan Co.

Norbeck, Edward, 1961. Religion in Primitive Society, New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers.

Norbeck, Edward, 1974. Religion in Human Life: Anthropological Views, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.

Pandian, Jacob, 1991. Culture, Religion, and the Sacred Self: A Critical Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Religion, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Radin, Paul, 1937. Primitive Reliugion: Its Nature and Origin. New York, NY: Viking.

Stein, Rebecca L, and Philip L. Stein, 2005, The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft, New York, NY: Pearson Educational, Inc.

Wallace, Anthony F.C., 1966. Religion: An Anthropological View, New York, NY: Random House.

Comparative Religion

Barber, Richard, 1991. Pilgrimages. Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press.

Barnes, Michael H., 1990. In the Presence of Mystery: An Introduction to the Story of Human Religiousness. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications.

Becker, Penny Edgell, and Nancy L. Eiesland, eds., 1997. Contemporary American Religion: An Ethnographic Reader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Altamira Press.

Bell, Catherine, 1992. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Berry, Thomas, 1992. Religions of India: Hinduism, Yoga, and Buddhism. Chambersburg, PA: Anima Publications.

Biallas, Leonard J., 1998. World Religions: A Story Approach. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications.

Bonvillain, Nancy, 1996. Native American Religion. New York, NY: Chelsea House.

Booth, Jr., Newell S., 1995. African Religions: A Symposium. New York, NY: Nok Publishers, Ltd.

Carmody, Denise Lardner, and John Tully Carmody, 1996. Mysticism: Holiness East and West. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Carrasco, David, 1990. Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.

Coward, Harold, ed., 2000. Life After Death in World Religions, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.

Crumrine, N. Ross, and Alan Morinis, eds., 1991. Pilgrimage in Latin America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Earhart, H. Bryon, 1984. Religions of Japan: Many Traditions within One Sacred Way. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.

Hultkrantz, Ake, 1998. Native Religions of North America, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.

Hunt, Arnold D., Mariet T. Crotty, Robert B. Crotty, 1991. Ethics of World Religions. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc.

Lawson, E. Thomas, 1985. Religions of Africa: Traditions in Transformation. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.

Magesa, Laurenti, 2000. African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Matthews, Warren, 1999. World Religions, Minneapolis, MN: West Publishing Co. (Third Edition).

Molloy, Michael, 1999. Experiencing the World's Religions: Tradition, Challenge, and Change. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Morinis, Alan, ed., 1992. Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Overmyer, Daniel L., 1986. Religions of China: The World as a Living System, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.

Paden, William E., 1988. Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion, Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Paden, William E., 1992. Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion, Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Parachin, Janet W., 1999, Engaged Spirituality: Ten Lives of Contemplation and Action, St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press.

Rausch, David A., and Carl Hermann Voss, 1993. World Religions, New York, NY: Trinity Press International.

Saint-Laurent, George E., 2000. Spirituality and World Religions: A Comparative Introduction. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Sharma, Arvind, ed., 1993. Our Religions: The Seven World Religions Introduced, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins.

Sharpe, Eric J., 1974. Comparative Religion: A HIstory. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Smart, Ninian, 1996. Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World's Beliefs, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Smith, Huston, 1991. The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins Publishers.

Smith, Huston, 1992. Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins.

Smith, Huston, 2001. Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins Publishers.

Stuart, Ninian, 1989. The World's Religions, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Sullivan, Lawrence E., 1988. Icanchu's Drum: An Orientation to Meanings in South American Religions, New York, NY: Macmillan.

Anthologies

Bowen, John R., ed., 1998. Religion, Culture, and Society, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Boyer, Pascal, ed., 1993. Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Crapanzano, Vincent, and Vivian Garrison, eds., 1977, Case Studies in SPirit Possession. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.

Glazier, Stephen D., ed., 1999. Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Hicks, David, ed., 2002. Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill College.

Johnstone, Ronald L., ed., 1997. Religion in Society: A Sociology of Religion, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Lambek, Michael, ed., 2002. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc.

Lehmann, Arthur C., James E. Myers, and Pamela A.Moro, eds., 2005. Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, New York, NY: McGraw Hill (Sixth Edition).

Leslie, Charles M., ed., 1960. Anthropology and Folk Religion. New York, NY: Vintage Books.

Lessa, William A., and Evon Z. Vogt, eds., 1965. Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach, New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers (Second edition).

Lewis, James R., and J. Gordon Melton, eds., 1992. Perspectives on the New Age, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Middleton, John, ed., 1967. Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing, Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press.

Middleton, John, ed., 1967. Gods and Rituals: Readings in Religious Beliefs and Practices, Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press.

Middleton, John, ed., 1967. Myth and Cosmos: Readings in Mythology and Symbolism, Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press.

Scupin, Raymond, ed., 2000. Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Focus. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

History and Theory

Ackerman, Robert, 1987. J.G. Frazer: His Life and Work. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Alexander, Bobby C., 1991. Victor Turner Revisited: Ritual and Social CHange. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press.

Asad Talal, 1993. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.

Banton, Michael, ed., 1966. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion. London, UK: Tavistock.

Bateson, Gregory, and Mary Catherine Bateson, 1987. Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology of the Sacred. New York, NY: Macmillan.

Bell, Catherine, 1992. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Boyer, Pascal, 1994. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Clarke, Peter B., and Peter Byrne, 1993. Religion Defined and Explained. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.

Clouser, Roy A., 1991. The Myth of Religious Neutrality: An Essay on the Hidden Role of Religious Belief in Theories. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Cunningham, Graham, 1999. Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories. New York, HNY: New York University Press.

Evans-Pritchard, E.E., 1965. Theories of Primitive Religion, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

Flood, Gavin, 1999. Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion, New York, NY: Cassell.

Guthrie, Stewart, 1993. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Klass, Morton, and Maxine K. Weisgrau, eds., 1999. Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Lawson, E. Thomas, and Robert M. McCauley, 1990. Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Messer, Ellen, and Michael Lambek, eds., 2001. Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Morris, Brian, 1987. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Pals, Daniel L., 1996. Seven Theories of Religion, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Rappaport, Roy A., 1999. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Saler, Benson, 1993. Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories. New York, NY: E. J. Brill.

Segal, Robert A., 1989. Religion and the Social Sciences, Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press.

Segal, Robert A., 1997. The Myth and Ritual Theory: An Anthology, New York, NY: Blackwell.

Sell, Alan P.F., 1988. The Philosophy of Religion 1875-1980, Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press.

Sharpe, Eric J., 1974. Comparative Religion: A History, New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Tambiah, Stanley J., 1990. Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Taylor, Mark Kline, 1986. Beyond Explanation: Religious Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.

Classics

Campbell, Joseph, 1972. Myths to Live By, New York, NY: Bantam Books.

Douglas, Mary, 1966. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, New York, NY: Penguin.

Douglas, Mary, 1970. Natural Symbols, New York, NY: Random House/Vintage.

Durkheim, Emile, 1995 (1912). The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, New York, NY: Free Press.

Eliade, Mircea, 1959. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, New York, NY: Harcourt Brace and Co.

Eliade, Mircea, 1964. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Evans-Pritchard, E.E., 1937. Witchraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

Evans-Pritchard, E.E., 1956. Nuer Religion, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

Frazer, James G., 1981 (1890). The Golden Bough: The Roots of Religion and Folklore, New York, NY: Avenel Books.

Freud, Sigmund, 1989 (1913). Totem and Taboo, New York, NY: Norton.

Hume, David 1993 (1779, 1757). Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

James, William, 1972 (1901-02). The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lodnon, UK: Fontana.

Jung, Karl Gustav, 1964. Man and His Symbols, Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Levi-Strauss, Claude, 1963. Totemism, Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Levy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1966. Primitive Mentality. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1954 (1926). Magic, Science, and Religion, Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1935. Coral Gardens and Their Magic. New York, NY: American Book Co.

Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, 1964. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Religion, New York, NY: Schocken Books.

Mauss, Marcel, 1972. A General Theory of Magic. Boston, MA: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Otto, Rudolf, 1958 (1923). The Idea of the Holy, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Rappaport, Roy A., 1979. Ecology, Meaning, and Religion, Richmond, CA: North Atlantic Books.

Turner, Victor, 1969. The Ritual Process: Stucture and Anti-Structure, Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

Turner, Victor, and Edith L.B. Turner, 1978. Image and Pilgrim in Christian Religion, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Tylor, Edward B., 1970 (1871). Primitive Culture, Glouchester, MA: Peter Smith.

van Gennep, Arnold, 1960 (1908). The Rites of Passage, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Weber, Max, 1958 (1904-05). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Weber, Max, 1963. The Sociology of Religion. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Winkelman, Michael, 2000. Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Case Studies

Bourguignon, Erika, 1976. Possession. San Francisco, CA: Chandler and Sharp.

Brown, Michael F., 1985. Tsewa's Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Geertz, Clifford, 1960. The Religion of Java, New York, NY: The Macmillan Company.

Geertz, Clifford, 1968. Islam Observed: Religious Developments in Morocco and Indonesia, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Goodman, Felicitas D., 1986. Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternative Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Grim, John, 1983. The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibwa Healing. Noirman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Guthrie, Stewart E., 1988. A Japanese New Religion: Rishho Kosei-kai in a Mountain Hamlet. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michgan Center for Japanese Studies.

Harner, Michael J., 1980. The Way of the Shaman. San Francisco, CA: Harper.

Nelson, John K., 1996. A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

Rapinsky-Naxon, Michael, 1993. The Nature of Shamanism: Substance and Function of a Religious Metaphor. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Spiro, Melford E., 1978. Burmese Supernaturalism. Philadelphia, PA: Institute for the Study of Human Issues.

Turner, Victor, 1967. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Miscellaneous

Adams, Carol J., ed., 1994. Ecofeminism and the Sacred, New York, NY: The Continuum Publishing Group.

Bateson, Gregory, 1991. Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of the Mind, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins Publishers.

Bell, Catherine, 1997. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Burkert, Walter, 1996. Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Carroll, John E., and Keith Warner, eds., 1998. Ecology and Religion: Scientists Speak. Quincy, IL: Franciscan Press.

Coffman, Michael S., 1994. Saviors of the Earth: The Politics and Religion of the Environmental Movement, Whitinsville, MA: Northfield.

Dury, Nevill, 1999. Exploring the Labyrinth: Making Sense of the New Spirituality. New York, NY: Continuum Publishing CO.

Eade, John, and Michael J. Sallnow, eds., 1990. Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage. New York, NY: Routledge.

Fletcher, Richard, 1997. The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity, New York, NY: Henry Holt.

Fox, Warwick, 1990. Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism. Boston, MA: Shambhala.

Harvey, Graham, 1997. Contemporary Pagainsim: Listening People, Speaking Earth, New York, NY: New York University Press.

Kearney, Michael, 1984. World View, Novato, CA: Chandler and Sharp Publishers, Inc.

Laughlin, Charles D., John McManus, and Eugene G. d'Aquili, 1993. Brain, Symbol and Experience: Toward a Neurophenomenology of Human COnsciousness. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Park, Chris C., 1994. Sacred Worlds: An Introduction to Geography and Religion, New York, NY: Routledge.

Passmore, John, 1974. Man's Responsibility for Nature: Ecological Problems and Western Traditions. New York, NY: Scribner's Sons.

Pfeiffer, John E., 1982. The Creative Explosion: AN Inquiry into the Origins of Art and Religion. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Reynolds, Vernon, and Ralph Tanner, 1995. The Social Ecology of Religion, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Roads, Michael, 1987. Talking with Nature: Sharing Energies and Spirits of Trees, Plants, Birds and Earth. Tiburon, CA: H. J. Kramer.

Roszak, Theodore, 1992. The Voice of the Earth. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, 1996. Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Simmons, Marc, 1974. Witchcraft in the Southwest. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Sopher, David E., 1967. Geography of Religions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Tabor, James D., and Eugene V. Gallagher, 1995. Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

Toulmin, Stephen E., 1982. The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Ucko, Peter J., and Robert Layton, eds., 1999. The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape, New York, NY: Routledge.

Watson, Lyall, 1987. Beyond Supernature: A New Natural History of the Supernatural, New York, NY: Bantam Books.

Reference Works

Adams, Charles J., 1977. A Reader's Guide to the Great Religions, New York, NY: The Free Press.

Barfield, Thomas, ed., 1997. The Dictionary of Anthropology, New York, NY: Blackwell Publishers.

Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan Spencer, eds., 1996. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, New York, NY: Routledge.

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