Across the boundaries of belief : contemporary issues in the anthropology of religion / Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau.

Author/creator Klass, Morton
Other author Weisgrau, Maxine K.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
Descriptionviii, 416 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Ethnology--Religious aspects.
Religion.

Contents Anthropologists versus missionaries / Claude E. Stipe -- From Tupã to the land without evil / Judith Shapiro -- Shamanism and Christianity / Sergei Kan -- Reflections on Christianity in China / Morton H. Fried -- Menstruation and reproduction / Marla N. Powers -- Domestication of religion / Susan Sered -- Becoming a mujercita / Valentina Napolitano -- Erotic anthropology / Deborah A. Elliston -- Exorcists, psychiatrists, and the problems of possession in Northwest Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp -- Woman who wanted to be her father / Yoram Bilu -- Hypnosis and trance induction in the surgeries of Brazilian spiritist healer-mediums / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Pockets full of mistakes / Douglas Hollan -- Bandits, beggars, and ghosts / Robert P. Weller -- Muslim identity and secularism in contemporary Turkey / Emelie A. Olson -- Interpretation of politics / Peter M. Whiteley -- Cargoism in Irian Jaya today / Benny Giay and Jan A. Godschalk -- Transnational popular culture and the global spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement / Neil J. Savishinsky -- On founders and followers / Benton Johnson -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit / Susan F. Harding.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 402-405) and index.
LCCN 99229970
ISBN081332694X (hardcover)
ISBN0813326958 (pbk.)