Reader in comparative religion: an anthropological approach /

By:

Lessa, William A [Author]

Contributor(s):

Material type:

0060439912

Subject(s):

Religions -- Addresses, essays, lectures

LOC classification:

BL 80.2 L567 1979

Contents:

THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION Animism -- Totem and Taboo: an ethnologic psychoanalysis -- Totem and taboo in retrospect -- The elementary forms of the religious life -- THE FUNCTION OF RELIGION IN HUMAN SOCIETY The role of magic and religion -- Taboo -- Anxiety and ritual: the theories of Malinowski and Radcliffee-Brown -- Religious perspectives in sociology and social psychology -- Myths and rituals: a general theory -- Religion as a cultural system -- THE INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLISM On key symbols -- Social hair -- The deer-maize-peyote symbol complex among the Huichol Indians of Mexico -- THE ANALYSIS OF MYTH The Apotheosis of Marespa -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male -- The structural study of myth -- The head and the Loins: Levi-Strauss and beyond -- Chamula genres of verbal behavior -- THE SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS OF RITUAL Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time -- Ritualization in man in relation to conceptual and social development -- Betwixt and between: the liminal period in rites de passage -- Ritual man in Africa -- Ritual, sanctity, and cybernetics -- Metaphors of hierarchy in a Mayan ritual -- Levi-Strauss among the north American Indians -- The Zuni Shalako ceremony -- The Peyote Way -- THE PURPOSES OF SHAMANISM Shamanistic performance in the inner room -- A Shaman's journey to the sea spirit -- Percussion and transition -- The effectiveness of symbols -- Aspects of cognition in Zinacanteco Shamans: experimental results -- INTERPRETATIONS OF MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, AND DIVINATION A fresh approach to the problem of magic and religion -- Sympathetic magic -- The form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view -- Witchcraft explains unfortunate events -- "Voodoo" death -- Divination as a phase in a social process -- A new perspective -- THE MEANING OF GHOSTS AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP An interpretation of ambivalence of two American Indian Tribes -- Ancestors as elders in Africa - further thoughts -- Ritual aspects of Chinese kinship -- The nature of Katcinas -- DYNAMICS IN RELIGION Nativistic movements -- Revitalization movements -- The Navaho Indians and the ghost dance of 1890 -- Big men and cargo cults -- Millenarianism -- "Internal coversion" in contemporary Bali --

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION
Animism -- Totem and Taboo: an ethnologic psychoanalysis -- Totem and taboo in retrospect -- The elementary forms of the religious life --

THE FUNCTION OF RELIGION IN HUMAN SOCIETY
The role of magic and religion -- Taboo -- Anxiety and ritual: the theories of Malinowski and Radcliffee-Brown -- Religious perspectives in sociology and social psychology -- Myths and rituals: a general theory -- Religion as a cultural system --

THE INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLISM
On key symbols -- Social hair -- The deer-maize-peyote symbol complex among the Huichol Indians of Mexico --

THE ANALYSIS OF MYTH
The Apotheosis of Marespa -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male -- The structural study of myth -- The head and the Loins: Levi-Strauss and beyond -- Chamula genres of verbal behavior --

THE SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS OF RITUAL
Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time -- Ritualization in man in relation to conceptual and social development -- Betwixt and between: the liminal period in rites de passage -- Ritual man in Africa -- Ritual, sanctity, and cybernetics -- Metaphors of hierarchy in a Mayan ritual -- Levi-Strauss among the north American Indians -- The Zuni Shalako ceremony -- The Peyote Way --

THE PURPOSES OF SHAMANISM
Shamanistic performance in the inner room -- A Shaman's journey to the sea spirit -- Percussion and transition -- The effectiveness of symbols -- Aspects of cognition in Zinacanteco Shamans: experimental results --

INTERPRETATIONS OF MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, AND DIVINATION
A fresh approach to the problem of magic and religion -- Sympathetic magic -- The form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view -- Witchcraft explains unfortunate events -- "Voodoo" death -- Divination as a phase in a social process -- A new perspective --

THE MEANING OF GHOSTS AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP
An interpretation of ambivalence of two American Indian Tribes -- Ancestors as elders in Africa - further thoughts -- Ritual aspects of Chinese kinship -- The nature of Katcinas --

DYNAMICS IN RELIGION
Nativistic movements -- Revitalization movements -- The Navaho Indians and the ghost dance of 1890 -- Big men and cargo cults -- Millenarianism -- "Internal coversion" in contemporary Bali --

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