A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Preface to Second Edition xi General Introduction 1(18) Part I The Context of Understanding and Debate 19(108) Opening Frameworks 21(1) Introduction 21(2) Religion in Primitive Culture 23(11) Edward Burnett Tylor The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 34(14) Emile Durkheim The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 48(9) Max Weber Religion as a Cultural System 57(22) Clifford Geertz Skeptical Rejoinders 77(1) Introduction 77(2) Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough 79(3) Ludwig Wittgenstein Religion, Totemism and Symbolism 82(8) W. E. H. Stanner Remarks on the Verb ``To Believe'' 90(7) Jean Pouillon Christians as Believers 97(13) Malcolm Ruel The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category 110(17) Talal Asad Part II Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds 127(172) Signs and Symbols 129(1) Introduction 129(2) The Logic of Signs and Symbols 131(8) Susanne K. Lunger The Problem of Symbols 139(12) E. E. Evans-Pritchard On Key Symbols 151(9) Sherry B. Ortner The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol 160(8) Eric R. Wolf Structure, Function, and Interpretation 167(1) Introduction 167(1) Myth in Primitive Psychology 168(8) Bronislaw Malinowski Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture 176(7) Marshall Sahlins Land Animals, Pure and Impure 183(13) Mary Douglas A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo 196(10) Claude Levi-Strauss Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre 206(20) Alton L. Becker Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder 225(1) Introduction 225(1) The Winnebago Trickster Figure 226(12) Paul Radin Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief 238(15) Raymond C. Kelly The Politics and Poetics of Transgression 253(14) Peter Stallybrass Allon White Conceptualizing the Cosmos 265(1) Introduction 265(2) Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual 267(13) Alfred Gell Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism 280(19) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Part III Praxis: Religious Action 299(130) The Movement in Ritual: Emergence 301(1) Introduction 301(1) The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action 302(9) Godfrey Lienhardt Form and Meaning of Magical Acts 311(15) Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah Liminality and Communitas 326(16) Victor Turner Gender, Subjectivity, and the Body 341(1) Introduction 341(1) ``Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots'' 342(8) Barbara Myerhoff Fate in Relation to the Social Structure 350(6) Meyer Fortes Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience 356(12) Gananath Obeyesekere Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance 368(18) Janice Boddy The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination 386(12) Dennis Tedlock What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order 397(1) Introduction 397(1) The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process 398(12) Maurice Bloch Enactments of Meaning 410(19) Roy A. Rappaport Part IV Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change 429(168) Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict 431(1) Introduction 431(1) New Heaven, New Earth 432(15) Kenelm Burridge The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money 447(17) Michael Taussig The Colonization of Consciousness 464(15) John Jean Comaroff Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion 479(16) Susan F. Harding On Being Shege in Kinshasa: Children, the Occult and the Street 495(14) Filip De Boeck Religious Ethics and Politics in the State, Public Sphere, and Transnational Scene 507(1) Introduction 507(2) Civil Religion in America 509(10) Robert N. Bellah Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia: Views from the Center and Periphery 519(14) Caroline Humphrey ``Using the Past to Negate the Present'': Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China 533(11) Mayfair Mei-hui Yang Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo 544(16) Charles Hirschkind Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains 560(13) Anne Vallely Candomble in Pink, Green and Black: Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian Religious Heritage in the Public Sphere of Salvador, Bahia 573(17) Mattijs van de Port Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence 590(7) Galit Hasan-Rokem Afterword 597(14) Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other 598(13) Stephan Palmie Part V Research Tools 611(19) A Guide to the Literature 613(17) Bibliography 630(43) Index 673