ANTHROPOLOGY 305: ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION

Dr. Eric Canin Fall 2000

Recommended Books for the Anthropology of Religion

The following are books that you might use for you term paper or just general interest.
Other lists can be found at the end of the Lehmann and Myers text and online in Nelson, A
Field Statement on the Anthropology of Religion . If the references below are available in
CSUFs Pollack library, they are followed by the call number for your convenience.

Classics (pre-1960s)

Bateson, Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson. Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology of
the Sacred.
B72 .B37 1987
Campbell, Joseph 1968 (1949) The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
BL313 .C28 1968
Durkheim, Emile. Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
GN470 .D813 1995
Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.
BL48 .E41
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande.
GN475.8 .E9
1956 Nuer Religion.
BL2480.N7 E9 1956
1965 Theories of Primitive Religion.
GN470 .E9
Frazer, James. The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion.
BL310 .F72 1959 (abridged edition), BL310 .F7 (3 volume complete edition)
Freud, Sigmund. 1938 (1913) Totem and Taboo.
BF733 .F7135 1950b
Hubert, H. and Marcel Mauss. 1964 (1898) Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function.
BL570 .H81
James, William.1985 (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience.
BR110 .J3
Jung, Carl. 1938 Psychology and Religion.
BL53 .J8
1964 Man and His Symbols.
BF173 .J735 1968
Lvi-Strauss, Claude. 1963. Structural Anthropology.
GN315 .L45
1969 The Raw and the Cooked.
BL304 .L4813 1969
1966 The Savage Mind.
GN451 .L38
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien. 1966. Primitive Mentality.
GN451 .L55 1966
Lowie, Robert. Primitive Religion.
GN470 .L6 1948
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engles. 1964 On Religion. R. Niebuhr, ed.
 BL2775 .M3983 1982
Mauss, Marcel. A General Theory of Magic.
BF1611 .M38 1972
Radin, Paul. 1959. Primitive Religion.
GN470 .R3
Tylor, Edward. Primitive Culture: Researches into the development of Mythology,
Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom.
GN400 .T8
Van Gennep, Arnold. 1965 (1909) Rites de Passage.
GN473 .G5
Weber, Max. 1958 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
BR115.E3 W4 1958
1964 Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press.
BL60 .W43

General texts and readers

Bowie, Fiona. The Anthropology of Religion.

de Waal Malefijit, Annemarie. Religion and Culture: An Introduction to Anthropology of
Religion.
GN470 .D4
Glazier, Stephen. Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook.
Hicks, David, ed. Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion.
Klass, Morton. Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion.
Lehmann, Arthur and James Myers, eds. Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An
Anthropological Study of the Supernatural.
BL50 .M26 1985
Lessa, William and Evon Vogt, eds. Reader in Comparative Religion: An anthropological
approach.
BL80 .L47 1965
Morris, Brian. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text.
BL41 .M63 1987
Norbeck, Edward. Religion in Human Life: Anthropological Views.
BL48 .N67
Pandian, Jacob. Culture, Religion, and the Sacred Self: A Critical Introduction to the
Anthropological Study of Religion.
BL256 .P36 1991
Wallace, Anthony. Religion: An Anthropological View.
BL48 .W18

General Theory (1960s-present)

Asad, Talal. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and
Islam.
BL50 .A85 1993
Berger, Peter. 1967. The Sacred Canopy.
BL54 .S65
Boyer, Pascal. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion.
Geertz, Clifford. 1973 The Interpretations of Culture: Selected Essays.
GN315 .G36
 1983 Local Knowledge.
GN316 .G43 1983
Guthrie, Stewart. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion.
BL256 .T36 1986
Tambiah, Stanley. Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality.
GN345 .T36 1990
Taylor, Mark Kline. Beyond Explanation: Religious Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology.
BL256 .T36 1986
Turner, Victor. 1967 Forest of Symbols.
DT963.42 .T8
1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure.
GN473 .T82
1974 Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society.
GN451 .T87

Ethnographies and Local Studies

Barrett, Leonard. The Rastafarians.

BL2532.R37 C36 1984
Black Elk 1972 (1932) Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala
Sioux.
E90.B82 A3 1972
Brown, Karen. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn.
BL2490.K68 B76 1991
Brown, Michael. Tsewas Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society.
SI 1.2:A 35/986 (in Documents)
Burdick, John. Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil.
BR675 .B87 1998
Christian, William A. 1972 Person and God in a Spanish Valley. New York: Seminar Press.
BR1027.N36 C56 1972
Comaroff, Jean. Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South
African People.
DT764.R65 C65 1985
Dubisch, Jill 1986 Gender and Power in Rural Greece.
HQ1075.5.G8 G46 1986
Fernandez, James W. 1982 Bwiti: An Ethnography of Religious Imagination in Africa.
BL2480.F3 F47 1982
Firth, Raymond. Religion: A Humanist Interpretation.
Ginzburg, Carlo 1980 (1976) The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-
Century Miller
BR877.F74 G5613
Ingham, John. Mary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico.
Lan, David. Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe.
Lancaster, Roger N. 1988 Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class
Consciousness in the New Nicaragua.
McGee, R. Jon. Life, Ritual, and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya.
Myerhoff, Barbara G. 1974 Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichul Indians.
F1221.H9 M9
Nash, June. We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in
Bolivian Tin Mines.
HD8039.M72 B65
Ong, Aihwa. 1987 Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in
Malaysia.
Ortner, Sherry. 1978 Sherpas through Their Rituals.
BL2032.S45 O77
Richards, Audrey. 1982 (1956) Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony among the Bemba
of Zambia.
GN483 .R46
Rosaldo, Michelle. 1980 Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life.
DS666.I4 R67
Tambiah, Stanley. 1984 The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets: A Study
in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism, and Millenial Buddhism.
BQ554 .T347 1984
Wallace, Anthony. The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca.
E99.S3 W3 1970
Warren, Kay. The Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town.
F1465.2.C3 W37

National and Regional Studies

Bastide, Roger. The African Religions of Brazil.

BL2590.B7 B3713
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.

BF1576 .B6
Burridge, Kenelm. New Heaven, New Earth: A Study of Millenarian Activities.
BT891 .B87
Cohn, Norman 1970 Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical
Anarchists of the Middle Ages.
BR270 .C6 1970b
Crumrine, N. Ross and Alan Morinis, eds. Pilgrimage in Latin America.
Fischer, Michael. Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution.
BP192.7.I68 F57
Geertz, Clifford. 1960 The Religion of Java.
BL2120.J3 G4
1968 Islam Observed: Religious Developments in Morocco and Indonesia.
BP64.M6 G4 1971
Gluckman, Max.1962 Essays on the Ritual of Social Relations.
1963 Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa.
GN645 .G55o
Kirk, John. 1989 Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Cuba.
Orsi, Robert, ed. Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape.
BL2525 .G63 1999
Radin, Paul. The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology.
E99.W7 R1
Sahlins, Marshall. Islands of History.
DU28.3 .S24 1985
Taussig, Michael. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America.
HD82 .T34
1987 Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing.
F2269.1.P87 T38 1987
Worsley, Peter. The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of Cargo Cults in Melanesia.
 BL2620.M4 W6 1968

Selected Themes

Bloch, Maurice and J. Parry, eds. 1982 Death and the Regeneration of Life.
GN486 .D4 1982
Bourguignon, Erika, Ed. 1973 Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social
Change.
BL53 .B643
Crapanzano, Vincent and V. Garrison, eds. 1977 Case Studies in Spirit Possession.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.
GN494 .D6 1994
Goodman, Felicitas. Ecstasy, Ritual and Alternate Reality.
BL48 .G635 1988
Hexham, Irving. New Religions as Global Cultures.
Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. 1983 The Invention of Tradition.
GT95 .I58 1983
Kehoe, Alice. Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical
Thinking.
Kertzer, David. Ritual, Politics, and Power.
GN492.3 .K47 1988
Lanternari, Vittorio. The Religions of the Oppressed: A Study of Modern Messianic Cults.

BL85 .L36
Leslie, Charles, ed. Anthropology and Folk Religion.
Lewis, I.M. Religion in Context: Cults and Charisma.
BL80.2 .L48 1986
Lewy, Gunther. 1974 Religion and Revolution.
BL65.P7 L46
Moore, Sally F. and Barbara G. Myerhoff. 1977. Secular Ritual.
Morinis, Alan, ed. Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage.
Myerhoff, Barbara. 1974. Peyote hunt; the sacred journey of the Huichol Indians.
F1221.H9 M9
Obeyesekre, Gananath. 1981 Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious
Experience. BL600 .O23
Parfrey, Adam. Apocalypse Culture.
Parkin, David, ed. 1984 The Anthropology of Evil.
BJ1401 .A67 1985
Robbins, Thomas and Susan Palmer, eds. 1997. Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem:
Contemporary apocalyptic movements.
Smith, Christian, ed. Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social Movement
Activism.
Thrupp, Sylvia, ed. Millennial Dreams in Action: Studies in Revolutionary Religious
Movements.
BT891 .T5
Turner, Victor and Edith Turner. 1978 Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture:
Anthropological Perspectives.
BX2323 .T87