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BOOKS

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Dow, James W. (1986) The Shaman's Touch: Otomí Indian Symbolic Healing. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press.

__________, and Alan R. Sandstrom, eds. (2001) Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Glass-Coffin, Bonnie (1998) The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Glazier, Stephen D., ed. (1997) Anthropology of Religion. New York: Praeger Publishers (ISBN 0-27-596560-0).

Glazier, Stephen D. and Charles A. Flowerday, editors. (2003) Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays.  Westport, CT: Praeger. 291 pp. (cloth).

Hefferan, Tara (2007) Twinning Faith and Development:  Catholic Parish Partnering in the US and Haiti.  Bloomfield, CT:  Kumarian Press.

Hopgood, James F., ed. (2005) The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press (paper and cloth).

Josephson, Bruce R. (2000) The LDS Worldview: A New Interpretation of  Christianity. Lanham: University Press of America (ISBN Cloth 0-7618-1919-3; Paper 0-7618-1920-7). 

Kehoe, Alice Beck (2000) Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

Kim, Caleb (2004) Islam among the Swahili in East Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: Acton Publishers..

Kreinath, Jens with Constance Hartung and Annette Deschner, eds. (2004) The Dynamics of Changing Rituals: The Transformation of Religious Rituals within Their Social and Cultural Context. New York: Peter Lang.

Kreinath, Jens with Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg, eds. (2006) Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts. Leiden: Brill.

Lambek, Michael (1981) Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

__________, (1993) Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

__________, (2002) The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

__________, with Paul Antze, eds. (1996) Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. New York: Routledge. 

__________, with Andrew Strathern, eds. (1998) Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

__________, with Ellen Messer, eds. (2001) Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

__________, ed. (2002) A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. Cambridge; Boston: Blackwell. [A substantial selection of classical and contemporary essays with introduction and editorial comment]

Lohmann, Roger Ivar (2003) Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

__________, (2003) Perspectives on the Category "Supernatural". Anthropological Forum (Special Issue) 13(2).

Lynn, Stephen, and  James W. Dow, eds. (1990) Class, Politics, and Popular Religion in Mexico and Central America. Washington, D. C.: American Anthropological Association.

McGilvray, Dennis B. (1998) Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health, and Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka. Admedabad: Mapin. (ISBN 0-944142-87-7).

Neville, Gwen Kennedy (1987) Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. (in paperback 2005)

__________, (1994) The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Occhipinti, Laurie A. (2005) Acting on Faith: Religious development organizations in northwest Argentina. New York: Lexington Books.

Olomo, Aina. (2002) The Core of Fire: A Path to Yoruba Spiritual Activism. New York: Athelia Henrietta Press. (ISBN 1-890157-35-X). [more information]

Plate, S. Brent, (2004) Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion Through the Arts. New York: Routledge.

__________, ed. (2003) Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

__________, ed. (2002) Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-Cultural Reader, Edited, and with Introductions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Robbins, Joel, Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds.) (2001) Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity in Oceania. Special Issue of the Journal of Ritual Studies 15.2. (ISBN 0967049911)

Romberg, Raquel (2003) Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico. University of Texas Press. (http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/romwit.html)

Salamone, Frank A. (1999) Readings in Introductory Sociology. Long Beach: Whittier Press.

__________, (2000) Anthropology and Theology. Gods, Icons, and God-talk . Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

__________, (2000) Society, Culture, and Leisure: An Anthropological Reference. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

__________, (2000) Adapting to Another Culture. Long Beach, NY: Whittier Publications.

__________, (2000) The Italians of Rochester, NY: 1900-1940. Lewiston, NY: Edward Mellen Press.

Saler, Benson (2000) Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books. paper. [more information]

Saler, Benson; Ziegler, Charles A.; Moore, Charles B. (1997) UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution Press. Hardcover, 1997. Paperback, 2003.

Schattschneider, Ellen (2003) Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [listed 5 June 2003] [more information]

Schmidt, Garbi ([2000]) American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago, Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen. paper. [more information]

Scupin, Raymond, ed. (2000) Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Focus. New York: Prentice Hall Press (ISBN 0-13-938235-6). [more information]

Shepherd, Deborah J. (1999) Funerary Ritual and Symbolism: An Interdisciplinary Interpretation of Burial Practices in Late Iron Age Finland. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. (BAR International Series; 808). [more information]

Spickard, James V.; J. Shawn Landres; Meredith B. McGuire, eds. (2002) Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion . New York: New York University Press (ISBN: 0814798020). [more information]

Stephen, Lynn; Dow, James W., eds. (1990) Class, Politics, and Popular Religion in Mexico and Central America. Washington, D. C.: American Anthropological Association.

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (2004) Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip. For, New Departures in Anthropology Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 052100473X paperback; 0521808685 hardcover).

__________, and Andrew Strathern (eds.) (2003) Landscape, Memory, and History: Anthropological Perspectives. London and New York: Pluto Press. (ISBN 0745319661 paperback; 074531967X hardback).

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2002) Violence: Theory and Ethnography. London and New York: Continuum Publishing. (ISBN: 0826460070, cloth; ISBN: 0826460089, paper)

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2002) Remaking the World: Myth, Mining and Ritual Change among the Duna of Papua New Guinea. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. (ISBN 1-58834-012-0)

__________, and A. Strathern (2002) Gender, Song, and Sensibility: Folktales and Folksongs in the Highlands of New Guinea. Westport, CT and London: Praeger Publishers (Greenwood Publishing). (ISBN: 0275977927)

__________, and A. Strathern (2001) Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea. Westport, Conn. and London: Bergin and Garvey, Greenwood Publishing Group. (ISBN 0-89789-762-5)

__________, and A. Strathern (eds.) (2000) Millennial Countdown in New Guinea. Special Issue of Ethnohistory Vol. 47(1), 2000. Duke University Press. (ISBN 08223-6507-3)

__________, and Andrew J. Strathern (eds.) 2000 Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives. ASAO (Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania) Monograph Series No. 18. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. (ISBN 0-8229-5716-7, paper; 0-8229-4115-5, cloth)

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2000) Speaking for Life and Death: Warfare and Compensation among the Duna of Papua New Guinea. Senri Ethnological Reports 13: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

__________, and A.J. Strathern (eds.) (1997) Millennial Markers Townsville: JCU, Centre for Pacific Studies. [ISBN 0864436394]

Strathern, Andrew, Pamela J. Stewart, Laurence M. Carucci, Lin Poyer, Richard Feinberg, and Cluny Macpherson (2002) Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press. (ISBN 0-89089-444-2) 

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2001) Minorities and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and Western Europe. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press. (ISBN 0-89089-952-5)

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History. Kent, Ohio and London: Kent State University Press. (ISBN 0-87338- 661-2)

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) The Python's Back: Pathways of Comparison between Indonesia and Melanesia. (2000) Westport, Conn. and London: Bergin and Garvey, Greenwood Publishing Group. (ISBN 0-89789-707-2) 

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Stories, Strength & Self-Narration. Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Adelaide, Australia: Crawford House Publishing. (ISBN 1863332030)

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1999) Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective. Durham N.C.: Carolina Academic Press. (ISBN 0-89089-942-8)

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1999) Collaborations and Conflicts. A Leader Through Time. Fort Worth Texas: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. (ISBN 0-15-502147-8)

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1999) >The Spirit is Coming!= A Photographic-Textual Exposition of the Female Spirit Cult Performance in Mt. Hagen. Ritual Studies Monograph Series, Monograph No. 1. Pittsburgh. (ISBN 0-9670499-03)

Tedlock, Barbara (2005) The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine. New York: Random House hardback [Bantam paperback: January 2006]

Turner, Edith (1987) The Spirit and the Drum. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

__________, (1992) Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

__________, (1996) The Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence Among a Northern Alaskan People. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

Turner, Edith; with Victor Turner (1978) Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press.

Wiegele, Katharine L. (2004) Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [due Nov. 2004]

Winkelman, Michael (2000) Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing. Bergin & Garvey. ISBN 0897897048. [more information]

 

ARTICLES

Bourguignon, Erika (1996) "Magic" IN Colliers Encyclopedia, 83-87.

__________, (1997) "Trance Dance" IN International Encyclopedia of Dance, Selma J. Cohen, ed. 6:184-188.

__________, ( 1999a) "Review of J. Rosenthal: Possession, Ecstasy and Law in Euw Voodoo," Journal of Anthropological Research 55:322-323.

__________, (1999b) "Possession" IN Encyclopedia of Women and Religion 2:786-788.

__________, (2000a) "Relativism and Ambivalence in the Work of M. J. Herskovits," Ethos 20:1-12.

__________, (2000b) "Dreams: Cross-Cultural Dimensions" IN Encyclopedia of Psychology 3:85-88.

__________, (2000c) "Consciousness and Unconsciousness: Cross-Cultural Experience" IN Encyclopedia of Psychology 2:275-277.

__________, (2000d) "Review of J. Rosenthal: Possession, Ecstasy and Law in Ewe Voodoo," Antioch Review 58: 379.

Bourguignon, Erika; Rigney, Barbara H., eds. (1998) Exile: A Memoir of 1939 by Bronka Schneider. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Bourguignon, Erika; Howard, Mary (1998) "Review of Philip Singer: "The Haitians, the Healers, and the Anthropologist. Two Case Studies (videorecording)," American Anthropologist 100:773-774.

Buckser, Andrew S. (2000) "Jewish identity and the meaning of community in  contemporary Denmark," Ethnic and Racial Studies 23(4):712-734.

__________, (1999) "Keeping Kosher: Eating and Social Identity Among the Jews of Denmark," 38(3):191-209.

__________, (1999) "Modern Identities and the Creation of History: Stories of  Rescue Among the Jews of Denmark," Anthropological  Quarterly 72(1):1-17.

__________, (1999) "Uenig og Stærk: Et Godt Koncept for en Dansk-Jødisk  Fremtid," Jødisk Orientering 69(2):4-6+.

Dow, James W. (1986) Curandiero. In Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Barbara A. Tenenbaum, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

__________, (1982) Las figuras de papel amate y el concepto de alma entre los Otomíes de la Sierra. América Indígena 42(4):629-650.

__________,
(1984) Symbols, Soul, and Magical Healing among the Otomí Indians. Journal of Latin American Lore 10(1):3-21.

__________,
(1977) Religion in the Organization of a Mexican Peasant Economy. In Peasant Livelihood. R. Halperin and J. Dow, eds. New York: St. Martin's Press.

__________, (1982) Las figuras de papel amate y el concepto de alma entre los Otomíes de la Sierra. América Indígena 42(4):629-650.

__________,
(1984) Symbols, Soul, and Magical Healing among the Otomí Indians. Journal of Latin American Lore 10(1):3-21.

__________,
(1986) Los chamanes de la Sierra Otomí. México Indígena. No. 8 January-February 1986. Pp. 13-21.

__________,
(1986) Tonal and Nagual in Otomí Thought: Totemic Symbols of Caring. Central Issues in Anthropology 6(2):25-30.

__________,
(1988) Sierra Otomí Carnival Dances. In Behind the Mask in Mexico. Janet Brody Esser, ed. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press.

__________,
(1990) Introduction: Popular Religion in Mexico and Central America, Chapter 1. In Class, Politics, and Popular Religion in Mexico and Central America. Lynn Stephen and James Dow, eds. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.

__________,
(1990) The Dynamics of Religion in Middle American Communities. Chapter 10 In Class, Politics, and Popular Religion in Mexico and Central America. Lynn Stephen and James Dow, eds. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.

__________,
(1993) Protestantismo en el Campo: Causas Materiales del Abandono de Fiestas en la Sierra Oriente de Hidalgo. Notas Mesoamericanas 14:123-130.

__________,
(1997) The Theology of Change: Evangelical Protestantism and the Collapse of Native Religion in a Peasant Area of Mexico. In Explorations in Anthropology and Theology. Frank A. Salamone and Walter Randolph Adams, eds. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

__________,
(2001) Demographic Factors Affecting Protestant Conversions in Three Mexican Villages, In Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America. Edited by James W. Dow Alan R. Sandstrom. Westport CT: Praeger.

__________,
(2001) Protestantism in Mesoamerica: The Old within the New, In Holy Saints and Fiery Preachers: The Anthropology of Protestantism in Mexico and Central America. Edited by James W. Dow and Alan R. Sandstrom. Westport CT: Praeger.

__________,
(2001) Central and North Mexican Shamans. In Mesoamerican Healers, Brad Huber and Alan Sandstrom, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press.

__________,
(2003) Sierra Otomí Religious Symbolism: Mankind Responding to the Natural World. In Mesas and Cosmologies in Mesoamerica. Edited by Douglas Sharon. Pp 25-31. San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Man.

Glass-Coffin, Bonnie (1999) "Engendering Peruvian Shamanism through Time: Insights from Ethnohistory and Ethnography," Ethnohistory 46(2):206-238.

Gutschow, Kim I. (1999) "The Smyung Gnas Fast in Zangskar, Northwest india: How Liminality Depends on Structure" IN Recent Research on Ladakh 8. Martijn van Beek, Kristofer Brix Bertelsen, eds. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

__________, (2000) "Novice Ordination for Nuns: The Rhetoric and Reality of Female Monasticism in Northwest India" IN Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal. Ellison Findly, ed. Boston: Wisdom Books.

__________, (2000) "Yeshe's Tibetan Pilgrimage and the Founding of a Himalayan Nunnery" IN Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, ed. London: Curzon Press.

Guthrie, Stewart (2000) "Bottles are Men, Glasses are Women," Anthropology Newsletter (April 2000).

Jindra, Michael (1994) "Star Trek Fandom as a Religious Phenomenon," Sociology of Religion (Spring 1994) 55(1): 27-51.

__________, (1999) "'Star Trek to Me Is a Way of Life:' Fan Expressions of Star Trek Philosophy" IN Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Essays on Star Trek, Religion and Popular Culture," Jennifer Porter, Darcee McLaren, eds. State University of New York Press.

__________, (2000) "It's About Faith in Our Future: Star Trek Fandom as Cultural Religion" IN Religion and Popular Culture in America," Jeffrey Mahan, Bruce Forbes, eds. University of California Press. (revised and abridged version of 1994 article)

Kreinath, Jens with Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg (2006) "Ritual Studies, Ritual Theory, Theorizing Ritual: An Introductory Essay," in: Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, eds. Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg, Leiden: Brill, xiii-xxv.

Kreinath, Jens (2004) "Meta-Theoretical Parameters for the Analysis and Comparison of two Recent Approaches to the Study of the Yasna," in: Zoroastrian Rituals in Context, ed. Michael Stausberg, Leiden: Brill, 99-136.

__________, (2004) "Theoretical Afterthoughts," in: The Dynamics of Changing Rituals: The Transformation of Religious Rituals within Their Social and Cultural Context, eds. Jens Kreinath, Constance Hartung and Annette Deschner, New York: Peter Lang, 267-282.

__________, (2005) "Ritual: Theoretical Issues in the Study of Religion," REVER: Revista de Estudos da Religi 5:100-107.

__________, (2006) "Semiotics," in: Theorizing Rituals: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts, eds. Jens Kreinath, Jan Snoek and Michael Stausberg, Leiden: Brill, 429-470.

Lambek, Michael (1980) "Spirits and Spouses: Possession as a System of Communication among the Malagasy Speakers of Mayotte," American Ethnologist 7(2):318-331. 

__________, (1983) "Virgin Marriage and the Autonomy of Women in Mayotte," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9(2):264-281.

__________, (1988) "Graceful Exits: Spirit Possession as Personal Performance in Mayotte," Culture 8(1):59-69.

__________, (1990) "Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority: Power and Practice on the Islamic Periphery," American Ethnologist 17(1):23-40.

__________, (1992) "Taboo as Cultural Practice among Malagasy Speakers," Man 27:19-42.

__________, (1995) "Choking on the Qur'an and Other Consuming Parables from the Western Indian Ocean Front" IN The Pursuit of Certainty," Wendy James, ed. London: Routledge (ASA Monographs), 252-275.

__________, (1996) "Afterword: Spirits and Their Histories, to Spirits in Culture" IN History and Mind, eds., Alan Howard, Jeannette Mageo. New York: Routledge, 237-249.

__________, (1997) "Pinching the Crocodile's Tongue: Affinity and the Anxieties of Influence in Fieldwork," Anthropology and Humanism 22(1):31-53.

__________, (2000a) "the Anthropology of Religion and the Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy," Current Anthropology 41(3):309-320.

__________, (2000b) "Localizing islamic Performances in Mayotte" IN Inside and Outside the Mosque: The Anthropology of Muslim Prayer Across the Indian Ocean, eds., David Parkin and Stephen Headley. Oxford: Curzon, 63-97.

__________, (2001) "The Value of Coins in a Sakalava Polity; Money, Death, and Historicity in Mahajanga, Madagascar," Comparative Studies in Society and History 43(4):735-762.

__________, (2002a) "Nuriaty, the Saint and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Post-Modern Colony" IN Post-Colonial Subjectivities, ed., Richard Werbner. Zed Books, 25-43.

__________, (2002b) "Fantasy in Practice: Projection and Interjection, Or the Witch and the Spirit-Medium" IN Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery, ed. Bruce Kapferer. New York: Berghahn, 198-214.

Lohmann, Roger Ivar (2006 [2003]) The Supernatural Is Everywhere: Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond, in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Cultural Anthropology. Second Edition. Kirk M. Endicott and Robert Welsch, eds. Dubuque: McGraw Hill, pp. 131-138.

__________, (2005) The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: Relationships with the Deceased in Papua New Guinea. Ethnology 44(2):189-206.

__________, (2005) Culture, in Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, L. Jones, ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, pp. 2086-2090.

__________, (2004) Dreams and Shamanism (Papua New Guinea), in Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices and Culture, M. N. Walter and E. J. N. Fridman, eds. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, pp. 865-869.

__________, (2003) Introduction: Naming the Ineffable. Anthropological Forum13(2):117-124.

__________, (2003) The Supernatural is Everywhere: Defining Qualities of Religion in Melanesia and Beyond. Anthropological Forum 13(2):175-185.

__________, (2003) Glass Men and Spirit Women in Papua New Guinea Cultural Survival Quarterly 27(2):53-54 Summer 2003, special issue "Shamanisms and Survival," Michael Winkelman, ed.

__________, (2003) Turning the Belly: Insights on Religions Conversion from New Guinea Gut Feelings, in The Anthropology of Religious Conversion, Andrew Buckser & Stephen Glazier, eds. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 109-121.

__________, (2003) Dream Travels and Anthropology, in Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific, Roger Ivar Lohmann, ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-17.

__________, (2003) Supernatural Encounters of the Asabano in Two Traditions and Three States of Consciousness, in Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific, Roger Ivar Lohmann, ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 188-210.

__________, (2001 [2000]) The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea, in Dreams: A Reader on Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming, Kelly Bulkeley, ed. New York: Palgrave. Pp. 111-132.

__________, (2001) Introduced Writing and Christianity: Differential Access to Religious Knowledge among the Asabano. Ethnology 40(2):93-111

__________, (2000) The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea. Ethos 28(1):75-102

Marie, Victoria, (2007) “Spirituality: Its starting role in recovery from addiction,” Spirituality and Health International, Vol. 8(3):. 148 - 156

McGilvray, Dennis B. (1998) "Arabs, Moors, and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim Ethnicity in Regional Perspective," Contributions to Indian Sociology, n.s. 32 (2):433-483.

Plate, S. Brent, (2005) "Ritualising Images: The Frames of Space, Time, and Aesthetics," in Visionary Landscapes: The Films of Nina Danino. London, Black Dog Press: 8-21

Plate, S. Brent, (2005) "El mundo de Infante a través de la simbología universal de las estrellas," in La Casa de Blas Infante en Coria del Río, edited by Alberto Egea. Sevilla, Centro de Estudios Andaluces: 171-184

Raverty, Thomas (a.k.a. Brother Aaron) (2003) "Starting with the Supernatural: Implications for Method, Comparison, and Communication in Religious Anthropology and Interreligious Dialogue," Anthropological Forum 13(2) 2003: 187-94. [more information]

Romberg, Raquel (2003) “From Charlatans to Saviors: Espiritistas, Curanderos, And Brujos Inscribed in Discourses of Progress and Heritage.” Centro Journal, 15 (2): 146-173.  

__________, (1998) “Whose Spirits Are They? The Political Economy of Syncretism and Authenticity.” Journal of Folklore Research, 35 (1): 69-82.

__________, (1996) “Saints in the Barrio: Shifting, Hybrid and Bicultural Practices in a Puerto Rican Community,” Multicultural Review, 5 (2): 16-25.

Salamone, Frank A. (1998) "Religion and Repression: Enforcing Feminine Inequality in an 'Egalitarian Society,'" IN International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, vol. 11, ed., S. M. Channa. New Delhi: Vedams Books.

__________, (2000) "The Vatican" IN Encyclopedia of National Cultures, ed., Melvin Ember. New York: Macmillan.

__________, (2000) "Secret Societies, Pilgrimage, Zionist Churches. Zulu, Divination." IN Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions , ed., Stephen Glazier. New York: Routledge (Religion and Society Series)

Saler, Benson (2004) "On Credulity" IN Religion as a Human Capacity: A Festschrift in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson, eds. Timothy Light and Brian C. Wilson. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 315-329.

 

__________, (2004) "Towards a Realistic and Relevant 'Science of Religion,'" Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 16(3): 205-233.

__________, (2003) " The Ethnographer as Pontifex" IN Translating Culture: Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology, ed. Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman. Oxford : Berg, 197-212.

 

__________, (2002) "The Future of the Anthropology of Religion (Part Two)," Anthropology News 43 (9): 52-53, December 2002.

 

__________, (2001) "Comparison: Some Suggestions for Improving the Inevitable," Numen 48(3): 267-275.

 

__________, (2001) "On What We May Believe About Beliefs" IN Religion in Mind: Cognitive Perspectives on Religious Belief, Ritual, and Experience, ed. Jensine Andresen. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 47-69.

           

__________, (2000) "Responses," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 12 (1/2):323-338. Also published in Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995, ed. Armin Geertz and Russell T .McCutcheon, 323-338. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 2000. (Responses to four papers read in a session at the XVIIth Congress on the book Conceptualizing Religion.)

 

__________, (1999) "Biology and Religion: On Establishing a Problematic," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 11-4:386-394.

 

__________, (1999) "Family Resemblance and the Definition of Religion," Historical Reflections /Réflexions Historiques  25(3):391-404.

 

__________, (1997) "Conceptualizing Religion: The Matter of Boundaries" IN Vergleichen und Verstehen in der Religionswissenschaft, ed. Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. Wiesbaden :Harrassowitz Verlag, 27-35.

 

__________, (1997) "Lévy-Bruhl, Participation, and Rationality" IN Rationality and the Study of Religion, ed. Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Luther H. Martin. Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 44-64.

 

__________, (1997) "E.B. Tylor and the Anthropology of Religion." Marburg Journal of Religion 2(1).
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb11/religionswissenschaft/journal


__________,(1995) "Priest/Priestess" IN The HarperColins Dictionary of Religion, ed. Jonathan Z. Smith. San Francisco : HarperCollins,  858-860.


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(1994) "Cultural Anthropology and the Definition of Religion" IN "The Notion of 'Religion' in Comparative Research," Selected Proceedings of the XVIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Rome, 1990, ed. Ugo Bianchi. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 831-836.


Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern (2003) Dreaming and Ghosts among the Hagen and Duna of the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. In, Dream Travelers: Sleep Expereiences and Culture in the Western Pacific, Roger Ivar Lohmann (ed.), pp. 42-59. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2003) The Ultimate Protest Statement, Suicide as a means of defining self-worth among the Duna of the Southern Highlands Province, PNG. Journal of Ritual Studies 17.1: 79-88.

__________,  and A. Strathern (2003) "Indigenous Knowledge Confronts Development among the Duna of Papua New Guinea" In, Development and Local Knowledge: New Approaches to Issues in Natural Resources Management, Conservation and Agriculture, "Studies in Environmental Anthropology'' Series''. London and New York: Routledge / Taylor and Francis.

___________, and Andrew Strathern (2002) Transformations of Monetary Symbols in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea''. For a special issue of the journal L'Homme on money (Questions de Monnaie). 162 April/June, pp. 137-156.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2002) "Making up people in Papua" [Comment on Hirsch]. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8(2): 367-369.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2002) Power and Placement in Blood Practices. Special Issue, "Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution", Janet Hoskins (ed.). Ethnology 41(4): 349-363.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2001) The Great Exchange: Moka with God. Special Issue, "Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania" edited by Joel Robbins, Pamela J. Stewart, and Andrew Strathern. Journal of Ritual Studies 15.2: 91-104. 

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2001) Origins Versus Creative Powers: The Interplay of Movement and Fixity. In, Emplaced Myths: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea Societies. Alan Rumsey and James Weiner (eds.), pp. 79-98. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2001). Timbu Wara Figures From Pangia, Papua New Guinea. Records of the South Australian Museum 34(2): 65-77.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2000) Naming Places: Duna Evocations of Landscape in Papua New Guinea. People and Culture in Oceania 16:87-107.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2000) Religious Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Previously entitled "Envisioning the Millennium in Highlands Papua New Guinea". Journal of Ritual Studies. 14(2), pp. 28-33.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (2000) Body and Mind in Mount Hagen, Highlands Papua New Guinea. Special Issue of the Journal Anthropology of Consciousness, guest edited by Grant Jewell Rich, Vol. 11 (3/4): 25-39.

__________, and Andrew J. Strathern (1999) Politics and Poetics Mirrored in Indigenous Stone Objects from Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Polynesian Society. [March 1999] Vol. 108, No. 1, pp 69-90.

__________, and Andrew J. Strathern (1999) Death on the Move: Landscape and Violence on the Highland's Highway, Papua New Guinea. Anthropology and Humanism 24(1): 20-31 [June 1999].

__________, and Andrew Strathern (1999) "Feasting on my enemy". Images of Violence and Change in the New Guinea Highlands. Ethnohistory Vol. 46(4):645-669.

__________, and A.J. Strathern (1999) Female Spirit Cults as a Window on Gender Relations in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. [Sept. 1999] 5(3):345-360.

__________, and Andrew Strathern (1999) Time at the End: The Highlands of Papua New Guinea. In, Expecting the Day of Wrath. Versions of the Millennium in Papua New Guinea. Christin Kocher-Schmid (ed.). Port Moresby: National Research Institute, Monograph 36, July 1999 pp. 131-144.

__________, and A. J. Strathern (1998) Life at the End: Voices and Visions from Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea. Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 82, No. 4, pp 227-244.

__________, and Andrew J. Strathern (1998) Money, Politics, and Persons in Papua New Guinea. Social Analysis July, 42:2, pp 132-149. 

__________, and A.J. Strathern (1998) Pathways of Power, Rumours of Fear: The Imagination of Space in Montane New Guinea. In, Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Proceedings of the Conference (Leiden 13-17 October 1997). Jelle Miedema, Cecilia Ode, and Rien Dam (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 313-320.

__________, and A. Strathern (1998) Report on Environmental Issues in the Aluni Valley in the Duna Area of Papua New Guinea. Nijmegen, Centre for Pacific Studies Oceania Newsletter No. 21, September 1998, pp 13-15.

__________, and Andrew J. Strathern (1997) Netbags Revisited: Cultural Narratives from Papua New Guinea. Pacific Studies. Vol. 20, No. 2. pp. 1- 30.

Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart (2003) Divisions of Power: Rituals in Time and Space among the Hagen and Duna Peoples, Papua New Guinea. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 1(1): 51-76.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2003) Conflicts vs. Contracts: Political Flows and Blockages in Papua New Guinea. In, The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post Cold-War World, edited by Brian Ferguson. London and New York: Routledge. Chapter 14, pp. 300-317.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2001) Rappaport's Maring: The Challenge of Ethnology. In, Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy Rappaport, Ellen Messner and Michael Lambek (eds.), pp. 277-290. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2001) Introduction: Anthropology and Consultancy. Ethnographic Dilemmas and Opportunities. Special Issue, "Anthropology and Consultancy" edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. Social Analysis 45(2): 3-22.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Dangerous Woods and Perilous Pearl Shells: the Fabricated Politics of a Longhouse in Pangia, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Material Culture 5(1): 69-89.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Kinship and Commoditization: Historical Transformations. Special Issue of L'Homme on kinship [2000]. No. 154/155, April/September 2000. Pp, 373-390.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Melpa Ballads as Popular Performance Art. In, Ivilikou: Papua New Guinea Music Conference and Festival. Edited by Don Niles and Denis Crowdy. Boroko, PNG: Institute of PNG Studies, pp. 76-84.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Creating Difference: A Contemporary Affiliation Drama in the Highlands of New Guinea. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. [March 2000]. 6(1):1-15.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Accident, Agency, and Liability in New Guinea Highlands Compensation Practices. Bijdragen 156-2: 275-295.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (2000) Mi les long yupela usim flag bilong mi: Symbols, Identity, and Desire in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Studies vol. 23, number 1/2, pp. 21-49.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart-Strathern (2000) Custom, Modernity and Contradiction: Local and National Identities in Papua New Guinea. The New Pacific Review Vol. 1, Number 1, Dec. 2000, pp. 118-126.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1999) Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, Overview. In, Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict. London and New York: Academic Press. (1999) Vol. 1, pages 89-99.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1999) Outside and Inside Meanings: Non-Verbal and Verbal Modalities of Agonistic Communication among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea. Man and Culture in Oceania Vol. 15. pp.1-22.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1999) On the theory of Stability and Change in Ritual: the legacy of Roy Rappaport. Review Essay on Roy Rappaport's (1999) Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge University Press) Social Analysis 43(3): 116-121.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1999) Objects, Relationships, and Meanings: Historical Switches in Currencies in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. In, Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesia. David Akin and Joel Robbins (eds). ASAO (Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania) Monograph Series No. 17. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 164-191.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) Melpa and Nuer Ideas of Life and Death: The Rebirth of a Comparison. In, Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Lambek, M. and A. J. Strathern (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp 232-251.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) The Embodiment of Responsibility: Confession and Compensation in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Studies Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (March/June) pp. 43-64.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) Seeking Personhood: Anthropological Accounts and Local Concepts in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. Oceania Vol. 68, No. 3, March 1998, pp 170-188.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) Embodiment and Communication: Two Frames for the Analysis of Ritual. Social Anthropology (Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists) Vol. 6, part 2. Pp 237-251.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) Shifting Places, Contested Spaces: Land and Identity Politics in the Pacific. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 9:2, 209-224.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) Shifting Places, Contested Spaces: Land and Identity Politics in the Pacific. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 9:2, 209-224.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1997) The Problems of Peace-Makers in Papua New Guinea: Modalities of Negotiation and Settlement. The Cornell International Law Journal. Vol 30, No. 3, pp 681-699.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1998) Continuities and Ruptures in Ritual Practices. Editorial Comment on Tubuan: The Survival of the Male Cult Among theTolai. Journal of Ritual Studies 12 (2): 29-30.

__________, and Pamela J. Stewart (1997) The Efficacy-Entertainment Braid Revisited: From Ritual to Commerce in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Ritual Studies 11 (1) pp 61-70.

Turner, Edith (1986) "Encounter with Neurobiology: The Response of Ritual Studies."  Zygon 21 (2): 219-232.

__________, (1986) "Philip Kabwita, Ghost Doctor: The Ndembu in 1985," The Drama Review 30, 4 (T112): 12-35.

__________, (1987) "Pilgrimage," An Overview in Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

__________, (1987) "Zambia's Kankanga Dances: The Changing Life of Ritual." Performing Arts Journal 30 (10) 3: 57- 71.

__________, (1989) "Comparative Symbology, Interreligious Tolerance, and Education," in The Social Sciences and International Education, eds., Mario Zamora, Donald Zeigler, and Tomoko Hamada, eds. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, 55-61.

__________, (1989) "From Shamans to Healers: The Survival of an Iñupiat Eskimo Skill," Anthropologica, 31: 3-24.

__________, (1990) "An Iñupiaq Woman's Story of Spirit Power," in Sixth International Conference on Hunters and  Gathering Socities, CHAGS 6: Changing Peoples,Changing Theories. Fairbanks: University of Alaska..

__________, (1992) "The Reality of Spirits: A Tabooed or Permitted Field of Study?" The Anthropology of Consciousness 3(3): 9-12.

__________, (1993) "American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities among the Iñupiat of Alaska." The Drama Review 37, 1 (T 137): 98-114.

__________, (1993) "Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai: The Creative Persona and his Pilgrimage," in Creativity/Anthropology, eds., Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, and Renato Rosaldo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 225-252.

__________, (1994) "The Effects of Contact on the Religion of the Iñupiat Eskimos," in Circumpolar Religion and Ecology: An Anthropology of the North, eds., Tadashi Irimoto and Takako Yamada. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 143-162.

__________, (1994) "A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia," in Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience, ed., Jean Guy-Goulet. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 71-95.

__________, (1994) "Behind Iñupiat Reincarnation: Cosmological Cycling," in Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit, eds., A. Mills and R. Slobodin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 67-81.

__________, (1994) "`Magical Beliefs' or `Eskimo Spirituality'? Different Reactions by Whites and Iñupiat to `Signs and Wonders,'" in Seventh International Conference on Hunters and Gathering Societies, CHAGS 7: Changing Peoples,Changing Theories, vol. II, ed., Linda Ellana. Fairbanks: University of Alaska, 695-705.

__________, (1997) "Theology and the Anthropological Study of Spirit Events in an Iñupiat Village." in Explorations in Anthropology and Theology , ed., Walter Randolph Adams. University Press of America. (new edition in press).

__________, (1997) "Religion and Culture in Present-Day Anthropology." Anthropology Newsletter October: 38.  Also "Conclusion,"  November.

__________, (in press) "The Soul and Communication Between Souls." in The Ontology of Consciousness, ed., Helmut Watischer.

Turner, Edith; with Barbara Myerhoff and Linda Camino (1987) "Rites of Passage" in Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan.

Turner, Edith; with Victor Turner (1982) "Religious Celebrations," in Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 200-219.

Varisco, Daniel M. (1991) "The Origin of the Anwa' in Arab Tradition," Studia Islamica (Leiden) 74:5-28.

__________, (1995) "The Tribal Paradigm and the Genealogy of Muhammad," Anthropological Quarterly.

__________, (2000) "Islamic Folk Astronomy," IN The History of Non-Western Astronomy. Astronomy Across Cultures. ed., Helaine Selin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 

Weibel, Deana (2002a) "The New Age and the Old World; the Interpretation and Use of European Shrines by Religious Creatives," Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies 2(2):81-87.

__________, (2002b) "'The Energy We Call the Goddess:' the Religious Creativist Use of a Roman Catholic Shrine," Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies 2(2):88-94. 

__________, (2003) "Controlling Chance, Creating Chance: Magical thinking in Religious Pilgrimage," The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic 1:161-178.

Ziegler, Charles and Benson Saler (2000) "The Roswell Incident" IN UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth, ed. James R .Lewis. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 258-262.


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