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David Hicks is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
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
David Hicks has a magician's touch in blending essential readings in the history of an anthropological approach to religion with an array of cross-cultural case studies that draw on the earlier theorists and display the diversity of not only religious beliefs and rituals but of ethnographic interpretation itself. Distilling the large corpus of anthropological literature on religion, past and present, is no easy task. All anthologies suffer from a relevance half-life, but Professor Hicks is to be commended for building on the pillars of past scholarship with the best recent research in the field and from the field. I plan to use the third edition and look forward to the innovations to be expected in a fourth, and why not a fifth.
— Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University; author of Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation
As an instructor of students new to the field of Religious Studies, I have found David Hicks' anthology Ritual and Belief to be an invaluable tool in the classroom. The wide array of selections from different disciplines gives the students a taste of what it means to be a scholar of religion. The new edition only further enhances the text as a resource for my students.
— Sarita Tamayo-Moraga, Santa Clara University
For the instructor who uses an anthology of readings either instead of an integrated text or as a supplement to one, this collection is well worth considering. No two instructors are likely to choose the same set of readings for a course in the anthropology of religion but this set has many of the classics. It can also be recommended for anyone wishing to sample what anthropologists have had to say about religion over the years.
— Robert L. Winzeler