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SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS
University of Virginia, Academic Sponsor
Voyage: Fall 2014
Discipline: Anthropology
ANTH 2320: Anthropology of Religion
Division: Lower
Faculty Name: Janet Six
Credit Hours: 3; Contact Hours: 38
Pre-requisites: None.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Religion is a powerful force in our everyday lives. This course examines the primary
components shared by all faiths including: creations myths and stories; concepts of the divine;
lifecycle- and calendar-based rituals; sacred spaces, objects, texts and individuals; as well as a
religion’s ultimate outcomes (what’s in it for the true believer). By comparing religions and
sacred practices cross-culturally we will come to better comprehend the true function of religious
structure. Whether influenced directly (as a devotee) or indirectly through religious based acts of
governance, this course examines the role of religion in orientating and controlling human
behavior – including how religious dogma influences the actions of nations across the global
stage. In today’s rapidly shrinking world, it is essential to have a basic understanding of how this
powerful force has the ability to both unite and divide humanity. This course will provide field
opportunities to tour important religious and sacred sites of the countries we will be visiting.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. Learn the origins and history of religion and religious beliefs
2. Develop critical thinking skills about – and tolerance for – a wide range of alternative and/or
competing belief systems
3. Improve in-class discussion and presentation skills
4. Strengthen writing and research skills
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
AUTHOR: Winzeler, Robert L.
TITLE: Anthropology and Religion: What We Know, Think, and Question
PUBLISHER: Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN #: (e-book) 9780759121911 (print) 9780759121904
DATE/EDITION: 2012
AUTHOR: Lambek, Michael
TITLE: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN #:9781405136143
DATE/EDITION: 2013, Second Ed.
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TOPICAL OUTLINE OF COURSE
DEPART SOUTHAMPTON- AUGUST 23:
A1- August 25: Anthropology and Religion
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Anthropology and Religion,” Anthropology and Religion: What
We Know, Think, and Question, 1-20
Lambek, Michael, “General Introduction,” A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 1-
17
Klepinin, Nicholas, “The War on Religion in Russia,” The Slavonic and East European
Review, 514-532 (PDF)
A2-August 27: The Anthropology of Religion
Readings:
Asad, Talal, “The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category,” A Reader in
the Anthropology of Religion, 111-126
Sutton, Joseph “'Minimal Religion' and Mikhail Epstein's Interpretation of Religion in
Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia,” Studies in East European Thought
107-135 (PDF)
Cameron, Sylvia and Laurent Lapierre, “Company Profile: Mikhaïl Piotrovsky and the
State Hermitage Museum,” 65-77 (PDF)
ST. PETERSBURG: AUGUST 29- SEPTEMBER 2
A3- September 3: Opening Frameworks: Towards an Anthropology of Religion
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Religion Here and There: Western Notions in Comparative
Perspective” 21-37
Gertz, Clifford, “Religion as a Cultural System,” A Reader in the Religion of Anthropology,
57-68
Ruel, Malcolm, “Christians as Believers,” A Reader in the Religion of Anthropology, 97-
109
A4- September 5: Religion and Intolerance
Readings:
Myerhoff, Barbara, “Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots,” A Reader in the Religion
of Anthropology, 342-349
Brustein, William I. and Ryan D. King, “Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust,”
International Political Science Review, 35-53 (PDF)
Stowers, Stanley, “The Concepts of 'Religion', 'Political Religion' and the Study of
Nazism,” Journal of Contemporary History, 9-24 (PDF)
Blatt, Marty, “ Holocaust Memory and Germany,” The Public Historian, 53-66 (PDF)
HAMBURG: SEPTEMBER 7-11
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A5- September 12: The Evolution of Religion
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Religion, Evolution, and Prehistory,” 38- 56
Tylor, E. B., “Religion in Primitive Culture,” A Reader in the Religion of Anthropology,
23-33
Durkheim, Emile, “The Elementary Forms of Religious Life,” A Reader in the Religion of
Anthropology, 34-47
ANTWERP: SEPTEMBER 14-16
LE HAVRE: SEPTEMBER 17-19
A6-September 20: The Composition of Religious Worlds
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Religion, Adaptation and the Environment,” 57-76
Malinowski, Bronislaw, “Myth in Primitive Psychology,” A Reader in the Religion of
Anthropology, 168-175
Stanner, W. E. H., “Religion, Totemism and Symbolism,” A Reader in the Religion of
Anthropology, 82-89
A7- September 22: When Worldviews Collide: Religion and Conflict
Readings:
Weber, Max “The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism, A Reader in the Religion of
Anthropology 48-56
Kane, John. J., “Protestant-Catholic Tensions,” American Sociological Review, 663-
672(PDF)
Mukdoon, Orla T., et al, “Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday
Agreement,” Political Psychology, 89-103 (PDF)
Southern, Neil, “After Ethnic Conflict: Religion and Peace-building in West Belfast,”
Irish Studies in International Affairs, 83-101 (PDF)
DUBLIN: SEPTEMBER 24-27
A8- September 28: Signs and Symbols
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Natural Symbols,” 77-102
Langer, Susanne K., “The Logic of Signs and Symbols,” A Reader in the Religion of
Anthropology 131-138
Evans-Pritchard, E. E., “The Problem of Symbols,” A Reader in the Religion of
Anthropology 139-150
Ortner, Sherry, “On Key Symbols” A Reader in the Religion of Anthropology 151-159
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A9- September 30: Structure, Function and Interpretation
Readings:
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, “ Form and Meaning of Magical Acts,” A Reader in the
Religion of Anthropology 311-325
Salins, Marshall “Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture,” A Reader in the Religion of
Anthropology 168-182
Bicho, Nuno et al, “The Upper Paleolithic Rock Art of Iberia,” Journal of Archaeological
Method and Theor, 81-151 (PDF)
Fritz, Carole and Giles Tosello “ The Hidden Meaning of Forms: Methods of Recording
Paleolithic Parietal Art,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 48-80 (PDF)
LISBON: OCTOBER 1-2
IN TRANSIT: OCTOBER 3
CADIZ: OCTOBER 4-5
A10- October 7: Religious Actions
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Myth and Ritual: Old and New,” 103-128
Hamel, Chouki El, “Constructing a Diasporic Identity: Tracing the Origins of the Gnawa
Spiritual Group in Morocco,” The Journal of African History, 241-260 (PDF)
Gutelius, David P. V., “The Path Is Easy and the Benefits Large: The Nāṣiriyya, Social
Networks and Economic Change in Morocco, 1640-1830,” The Journal of African
History, 27-49 (PDF)
Sherwood, Yvonne, ”Binding-Unbinding: Divided Responses of Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam to the "Sacrifice" of Abraham's Beloved Son,” Journal of the American
Academy of Religion, 821-861
CASABLANCA: OCTOBER 8-11
A11-October 13: Rites and Rituals
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Ritual and Belief,” 129-150
Boddy, Janice, “Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics and
Possession and Trance, A Reader in the Religion of Anthropology, 368-385
Hanretta, Sean, “Muslim Histories, African Societies: The Venture of Islamic Studies in
Africa, The Journal of African History, 479-491(PDF)
Roberts, Allen F. and Mary Nooter Roberts, “Mystical Graffiti and the Refabulation of
Dakar,” Africa Today, 51-77 (PDF)
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A12- October 15: MIDTERM EXAM
Readings:
Searing, James F. “'No Kings, No Lords, No Slaves': Ethnicity and Religion among the
Sereer-Safèn of Western Bawol, 1700-1914,” The Journal of African History, 407-429
(PDF)
Foster, Elizabeth A. “An Ambiguous Monument: Dakar's Colonial Cathedral of the
Souvenir Africain,”French Historical Studies, 85-119 (PDF)
Leichtman, Mara A. “From the Cross (and Crescent) to the Cedar and Back Again:
Transnational Religion and Politics Among Lebanese Christians in Senegal,”
Anthropological Quarterly, 35-75 (PDF)
DAKAR: OCTOBER 16-19
A13- October 21: Witchcraft Then
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Witchcraft and Sorcery: Past, Present, Far and Near” 151-176
Parker, John,” Witchcraft, Anti-Witchcraft and Trans-Regional Ritual Innovation in Early
Colonial Ghana: Sakrabundi and Aberewa, 1889-1910,” The Journal of African History,
393-420
Sanders, Todd, “Reconsidering Witchcraft: Postcolonial Africa and Analytic
(Un)Certainties,” American Anthropologist, 338-352
A14- October 23: Witchcraft Now
Readings:
Heaton, Tim and Spencer James and Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi, “Religion and Socioeconomic
Attainment in Ghana,” Review of Religious Research,. 71-86
Meyer, Birgit, "Praise the Lord": Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana's
New Public Sphere,” American Ethnologist, 92-110
Newell, Sasha, “Pentecostal Witchcraft: Neoliberal Possession and Demonic Discourse in
Ivoirian Pentecostal Churches,” Journal of Religion in Africa,461-490
TAKORADI: OCTOBER 25-26
TEMA: OCTOBER 27-28
A15- October 29: Entering Altered States
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Spirit Possession, Spirit Mediumship and Shamanism”177-196
Emma Cohen and Justin L. Barrett, “Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic
and Experimental Evidence,” Ethos, 246-267
Pérez, Elizabeth, “Spiritist Mediumship as Historical Mediation: African-American Pasts,
Black Ancestral Presence, and Afro-Cuban Religions,” Journal of Religion in Africa,
330-365
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A16- October 31: Altered States Continued
Readings:
Kracke , Waud H., “To Dream, Perchance to Cure: Dreaming and Shamanism in a
Brazilian Indigenous Society,” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and
Cultural Practice, 106-120
Seligman, Rebecca, “Distress, Dissociation, and Embodied Experience: Reconsidering
the Pathways to Mediumship and Mental Health,” Ethos, 71-99
Study Day: November 2
A17-November 3: Pentecostalism and Evangelicals
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Religious Movements and the Origins of Religion,” 197- 216
Buckham, Matthew H., “Reserve in Matters of Religion,” The Harvard Theological
Revie, 239-243
Inman, Samuel Guy , “The Religious Approach to the Latin-American Mind,” The
Journal of Religion, 490-500
A18- November 5: New Takes on Old Stories
Readings:
Hess, David J., “Ghosts and Domestic Politics in Brazil: Some Parallels between Spirit
Possession and Spirit Infestation,” Ethos, 407-438
Selka, Stephen, “New Religious Movements in Brazil,” Nova Religio: The Journal of
Alternative and Emergent Religions, 3-12
Langdon, Esther Jean and Isabel Santana de Rose, “(Neo)Shamanic Dialogues:
Encounters between the Guarani and Ayahuasca,” Nova Religio: The Journal of
Alternative and Emergent Religions, 36-59
RIO DE JANEIRO: NOVEMBER 7-9
IN-TRANSIT: NOVEMBER 10-11
SALVADOR: NOVEMBER 12-14
A19- November 15: Going Global
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Anthropology and the World Religions,” 217-248
Birman, Patricia and David Lehmann, “Religion and the Media in a Battle for Ideological
Hegemony: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and TV Globo in Brazil,”
Bulletin of Latin American Research 145-164
Dawson, Andrew, “Spirit Possession in a New Religious Context: The Umbandization of
Santo Daime,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 60-84
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A20- November 17: Slavery and Syncretism
Readings:
Paton, Diana, “Witchcraft, Poison, Law and Atlantic Slavery,” The William and Mary
Quarterly, 235-264
Matory, J. Lorand, “Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic
Religions,” Journal of Religion in Africa, 398-425
Handler, Jerome S., “Slave Medicine and Obeah in Barbados, Circa 1650 to 1834,”
NWIG: New West Indian Guide, 57-90
Perez y Mena, Andres, “Cuban Santería, Haitian Vodun, Puerto Rican Spiritualism: A
Multiculturalist Inquiry into Syncretism,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 15-
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Study Day: November 19
A21-November 20: Science and Religion: Strange Bedfellows?
Readings:
Winzeler, Robert L., “Anthropology and Religion on a larger canvas: Religious Change
under Socialism and Capitalism” 249 – 280
Einstein, Albert, “Personal God Concept Causes Science-Religion Conflict,” The Science
News-Letter, 181-182
Nelkin, Dorothy, “God Talk: Confusion between Science and Religion: Posthumous
Essay,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, 139-152
McCuskey, Brian, “Sherlock Holmes and Intelligent Design,”
The Quarterly Review of Biology, 225-235
BRIDGETOWN: NOVEMBER 22-24
A22-November 25: In-Class Field Assignment Presentations
A23- November 27: In-Class Field Assignment Presentations
HAVANA: NOVEMBER 29- DECEMBER 2:
Study Day- December 3
A24-December 4 (A Day Finals): FINAL EXAM
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FIELD WORK
Field lab attendance is mandatory for all students enrolled in this course. Please do not book
individual travel plans or a Semester at Sea sponsored trip on the day of our field lab.
FIELD LAB PROPOSAL #1
The Talking Museum
Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the State Hermitage Museum is one of the oldest
museums in the world and boasts the largest collection of paintings on the globe. Built adjacent
to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the New Hermitage has been open to the public since
1852 and became a symbol of the power of the Russian Empire. After the Russian Revolution of
1917 the Tsarist autocracy was dismantled and the Winter Palace of Catherine the Great and her
Hermitage where merged and made into a state controlled institution. Under Soviet Russia the
message changed as party leader Joseph Stalin attempted to turn state museums into vehicles for
delivering Communist anti-religion propaganda. During this period the Hermitage – now known
as the State Museum in Leningrad - took a decidedly iconophobic stance sending a clear message
that religious art, icons and all forms of idolatry would no longer be tolerated. The Soviets
referred to these spaces as “talking museums.” After perestroika – literally the restructuring –
and the end of the Cold War, the message changed once again as Soviet-closed churches
reopened and the religious art, objects and holy relics could once again be displayed as key parts
of Russia’s collective cultural heritage. As we tour the many exhibitions of the Hermitage keep
your eyes open because through the careful selection of art, objects and artifacts the current
curators are trying to tell (or sell) you something. The questions is: are you buying what they’re
telling (selling) you?
FIELD LAB PROPOSAL #2
Competing Views: Sacred Architecture of Casablanca
Over 50% of the people on the planet are followers of three religions based on the common belief
they are descendants of Abraham. They are, in chronological order of appearance: Judaism;
Christianity and Islam. Although, peripherally, Abrahamic religions are monotheistic with roots in
the Middle East based on a shared belief in a common spiritual “father,” their foundational beliefs
are very different. For example, the belief the resurrection of Jesus – which figures prominently in
Christianity – is not embraced by Judaism or Islam. Just as the prophetic (Mohammad) and
messianic (Jesus) beliefs of Islam and Christianity are not shared by Judaism. In Casablanca we
will be visiting three sacred sites – each associated with an Abrahamic religion. The earliest of
these is the Cathedral Sacré-Cœur de Casablanca, church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Built in
1930, it is a former Roman Catholic church that was intended to be a cathedral but in actuality
was never the seat of a bishop. The Cathedral Sacré-Cœur de Casablanca ceased its religious
function in 1956 after the independence of Morocco from French and Spanish protectorates. We
will also be visiting the Grande Mosquée Hassan II- the seventh largest mosque in the world.
Build by King Hassan II to honor King Mohammed V after his death in 1961, the massive
structure was inaugurated on the 11th
Rabi` al-thani of the year 1414 of the Hegria (August 30,
1993) marking the eve of Prophet Mohammad’s Birth and can accommodate up to 80,000
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devotees. Finally we will also be touring the Museum of Moroccan Judaism – one of the only
institutions of its kind in the Arab world. Founded in 1997, the Jewish Museum as it is
commonly known, was built on the site of a demolished Jewish orphanage and is homage to
2,000 years of Judaism in Morocco and features photos of synagogues and objects of Jewish-
Moroccan cultural heritage. Today Morocco has about 3,000 Jews – approximately one tenth of
its historic population.
FIELD ASSIGNMENT
After our FIELD LAB, you will be responsible for producing a comprehensive research paper –
that will inform your 5 to 10 minute end-of-the-semester in-class presentation – on one of the
following three subjects: 1.) Religious Structures (churches, cathedrals, temples, tombs, etc.); 2.)
Museum exhibitions of sacred objects and/or relics; or 3.) Religious Heritage Sites/Monuments.
Your paper should be a critical, comparative review of three religious structure, museum
collections and or heritage sites/monuments. Open your senses and include the following: your
overall impression of the site (magnificent, dowdy, hot, cold, exciting, boring, etc.); How the
space is “orchestrated” (formal, informal, stuffy, etc.)?; What is the overall message (what do you
think the site and/or its curators are trying to tell you); Who is the primary audience for the
message (locals, tourists, religious devotees, etc.); What did you like best about the structure,
museum collection and/or heritage site/monument? What did you think could use some
improvement.
Word limit: 1,500. Please include captioned photos where appropriate to validate your points.
1.) Religious Structures – Visit at least three (3) religious structures (churches, cathedrals,
temples, tombs, etc) in at least three (3) different countries. Did you enjoy the experience?
If so, why? What did they do right? If not, why not? In doing your review please keep the
following in mind (1) When was the structure built? (2) Who built it and why? (3) Was the
structure modified/occupied over time? If so, by whom and why? (4) What types of
informational materials are provided at the site? (5) What is the “importance” of the
religious structure to its community and lastly (6) Who are the devotees and what are they
worshiping?
2.) Sacred Art, Objects and Holy relics – Visit at least three (3) musuems displaying
religious art, objects and/or holy relics in at least three (3) different countries. Did you
enjoy the experience? If so, why? What did the museum do right? If not, why not? In doing
your review please keep the following in mind: (1) When was the museum built? (2) Who
built it and why? (3) How did the museum obtain the collection displayed? (4) What types
of informational materials are provided about the collection? (5) What is the “importance”
of the museum and the collection to its community and lastly (6) Who are the devotees and
what are/were they worshiping?
3.) Religious Heritage Sites/Monuments - Visit at least three (3) overtly religious heritage
sites/ancient monuments in at least three (3) different countries. When visiting each site be
sure to take comprehensive notes including (1) When was the site/monument constructed?
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(2) Why the site is culturally important? (3) Who is accessing the site and why? (4) What
message is being broadcast by who and to whom? (5) What accommodations have been
made to encourage visitors/religious pilgrims? (6) Are their adequate measures in place to
protect the site from tourist traffic? And lastly (7) Who – if anyone – is profiting from the
the site, how and why?
METHODS OF EVALUATION / GRADING RUBRIC
Class Attendance and Enthusiasm 20%
Midterm Exam 25%
Field Lab and Field Research Paper 20%
In-Class Final Presentation 10%
Final Exam 25%
ATTENDANCE: Attendance is required. You are responsible to sign in each class. More than
two unexcused absences will negatively impact your grade. More than six unexcused absences
and you will automatically receive an “F” for this course.
RESERVE LIBRARY LIST
AUTHOR: Warms, Richard L.
TITLE: Sacred Realms: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
ISBN #: 0195341325
DATE/EDITION: 2009
AUTHOR: Prothero, Stephen
TITLE: God is Not One: Eight Rival Religions that Run the World
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins
ISBN #: 0061571288
DATE/EDITION: 2011
AUTHOR: Stein, Rebecca and Phillip L. Stein
TITLE: Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
PUBLISHER: Pearson
ISBN #: 978-0558912345
DATE/EDITION: 2010
AUTHOR: Esposito, John L. and Darrell J. Fasching, Todd Lewis
TITLE: World Religions Today
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
ISBN #: 0199759510
DATE/EDITION: 2011
ELECTRONIC COURSE MATERIALS
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AUTHOR: Lambek, Michael
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: General Introduction
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
VOLUME:
DATE: 2008
PAGES: 1-17
AUTHOR: Asad, Talal
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
VOLUME:
DATE: 2008
PAGES: 111-126
AUTHOR: Cameron, Sylvie and Laurent Lapierre
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Company Profile: Mikhaïl Piotrovsky and the State Hermitage
Museum
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: International Journal of Arts Management
VOLUME: Vol. 10, No. 1
DATE: 65-77
PAGES: 2007
AUTHOR: Klepinin, Nicholas
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The War on Religion in Russia
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Slavonic and East European Review
VOLUME: Vol. 8, No. 24
DATE: Mar., 1930
PAGES: 514-532
AUTHOR: Sutton, Joseph
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: 'Minimal Religion' and Mikhail Epstein's Interpretation of
Religion in Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Studies in East European Thought
VOLUME: Vol.. 58, No. 2
DATE: 2006
PAGES: 107-135
AUTHOR: Stowers, Stanley
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Concepts of 'Religion', 'Political Religion' and the Study of
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Nazism
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Journal of Contemporary History
VOLUME: 42, No. 1
DATE: Jan., 2007
PAGES: 9-24
AUTHOR: Brustein, William I. and Ryan D. King
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: International Political Science Review
VOLUME: Vol. 25, No. 1
DATE: Jan., 2004
PAGES: 35-53
AUTHOR: Kane, John J.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Protestant-Catholic Tensions
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: American Sociological Review
VOLUME: Vol. 16, No. 5
DATE: Oct., 1951
PAGES: 663-672
AUTHOR: Muldoon, Orla T. and Karen Trew, Jennifer Todd, Nathalie Rougier and Katrina
McLaughlin
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Religious and National Identity after the Belfast Good Friday
Agreement
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Political Psychology
VOLUME: Vol. 28, No. 1
DATE: Feb., 2007
PAGES: 89-103
AUTHOR: Southern, Neil
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: After Ethnic Conflict: Religion and Peace-building in West
Belfast
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Irish Studies in International Affairs
VOLUME: Vol. 20
DATE: 2009
PAGES: 83-101
AUTHOR: Blatt, Marty
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Holocaust Memory and Germany
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Public Historian
VOLUME: Vol. 34, No. 4
DATE: Fall 2012
PAGES: 53-66
AUTHOR: Bicho, Nuno and Antonio F. Carvalho, Cesar González-Sainz, Jose Luis Sanchidrián,
Valentín Villaverde and Lawrence G. Straus
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ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Upper Paleolithic Rock Art of Iberia
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
VOLUME: Vol. 14, No. 1
DATE: 2007
PAGES: 81-151
AUTHOR: Hamel, Chouki El
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Constructing a Diasporic Identity: Tracing the Origins of the
Gnawa Spiritual Group in Morocco
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Journal of African History
VOLUME: Vol. 49, No. 2
DATE: 2008
PAGES: 241-260
AUTHOR: Gutelius, David P. V
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Path Is Easy and the Benefits Large: The Nāṣiriyya, Social
Networks and Economic Change in Morocco, 1640-1830
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Journal of African History
VOLUME: Vol. 43, No. 1
DATE: 2002
PAGES: 27-49
AUTHOR: Roberts, Allen F. and Mary Nooter Roberts
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Mystical Graffiti and the Refabulation of Dakar,
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Africa Today
VOLUME: Vol. 54, No. 2
DATE: Winter, 2007
PAGES: 51-77
AUTHOR: Foster, Elizabeth A.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: An Ambiguous Monument: Dakar's Colonial Cathedral of the
Souvenir Africain
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: French Historical Studies
VOLUME: Vol. 32, No. 1
DATE: Winter 2009
PAGES: 85-119
AUTHOR: Leichtman, Mara A.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: From the Cross (and Crescent) to the Cedar and Back Again:
Transnational Religion and Politics Among Lebanese Christians in Senegal
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Anthropological Quarterly
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VOLUME: Vol. 86, No. 1
DATE: Winter 2013
PAGES: 35-75
AUTHOR: Searing, James F.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: 'No Kings, No Lords, No Slaves': Ethnicity and Religion among
the Sereer-Safèn of Western Bawol, 1700-1914
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Journal of African History
VOLUME: Vol. 43, No. 3
DATE: 2002
PAGES: 407-429
AUTHOR: Parker, John
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Witchcraft, Anti-Witchcraft and Trans-Regional Ritual
Innovation in Early Colonial Ghana: Sakrabundi and Aberewa, 1889-1910
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Journal of African History
VOLUME: Vol. 45, No. 3
DATE: 2004
PAGES: 393-420
AUTHOR: Heaton, Tim and Spencer James and Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Religion and Socioeconomic Attainment in Ghana
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Review of Religious Research
VOLUME: Vol. 51, No. 1
DATE: 2009
PAGES: 71-86
AUTHOR: Newell, Sasha
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Pentecostal Witchcraft: Neoliberal Possession and Demonic
Discourse in Ivoirian Pentecostal Churches
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Journal of Religion in Africa
VOLUME: Vol. 37, Fasc. 4
DATE: 2007
PAGES: 461-490
AUTHOR: Sanders, Todd
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Reconsidering Witchcraft: Postcolonial Africa and Analytic
(Un)Certainties
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: American Anthropologist
VOLUME: Vol. 105, No. 2
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DATE: Jun., 2003
PAGES: 338-352
AUTHOR: Meyer, Birgit
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Praise the Lord": Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in
Ghana's New Public Sphere
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: American Ethnologist
VOLUME: Vol. 31, No. 1
DATE: Feb., 2004
PAGES: 92-110
AUTHOR: Kracke, Waud H.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: To Dream, Perchance to Cure: Dreaming and Shamanism in a
Brazilian Indigenous Society
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural
Practice
VOLUME: Vol. 50, No. 2,
DATE: Summer 2006
PAGES: 106-120
AUTHOR: Emma Cohen and Justin L. Barrett
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and
Experimental Evidence
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Ethos
VOLUME: Vol. 36, No. 2
DATE: Jun., 2008
PAGES: 246-267
AUTHOR: Pérez, Elizabeth
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Spiritist Mediumship as Historical Mediation: African-American
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DATE: 2011
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AUTHOR: Matory, J. Lorand
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DATE: 2007
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AUTHOR: Birman, Patricia and David Lehmann
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Religion and the Media in a Battle for Ideological Hegemony:
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VOLUME: Vol. 18, No. 2
DATE: 1999
PAGES: 145-164
AUTHOR: Seligman, Rebecca
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Distress, Dissociation, and Embodied Experience: Reconsidering
the Pathways to Mediumship and Mental Health
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Ethos
VOLUME: Vol. 33, No. 1
DATE: Mar., 2005
PAGES: 71-99
AUTHOR: Hess, David J
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Ghosts and Domestic Politics in Brazil: Some Parallels between
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JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Ethos
VOLUME: Vol. 18, No. 4
DATE: Dec., 1990
PAGES: 407-438
AUTHOR: Buckham, Matthew H.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Reserve in Matters of Religion
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VOLUME: Vol. 1, No. 2
DATE: Apr., 1908
PAGES: 239-243
AUTHOR: Inman, Samuel Guy
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: The Religious Approach to the Latin-American Mind
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Journal of Religion
VOLUME: Vol. 2, No. 5
DATE: Sep., 1922
PAGES: 490-500
AUTHOR: Selka, Stephen
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DATE: May 2012
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DATE: May 2012
PAGES: 36-59
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VOLUME: Vol. 37, No. 1
DATE: Mar., 1998
PAGES: Mar., 1998
AUTHOR: Nelkin, Dorothy
ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: God Talk: Confusion between Science and Religion: Posthumous
Essay
JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Science, Technology, & Human Values
VOLUME: Vol. 29, No. 2
DATE: Spring, 2004
PAGES: 139-152
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PAGES: 181-182
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