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• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. INTELLECTUALIST APPROACHES
• 2. EMOTIONALIST APPROACHES
• 3. STRUCTURALIST APPROACHES
• 4. INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES
• 5. COGNITIVE APPROACHES
• 6. PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACHES
• 7. SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES
• 1 Shamanism
• 1.1. PROLOGUE
• 1.2. WHAT IS SHAMANISM?
• 1.3. SHAMANISM AND ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• 1.4. SPIRIT-POSSESSION AND SHAMANISM
• 1.5. SIBERIAN AND INNER ASIAN SHAMANISM
• 1.6. INUIT SHAMANISM
• 1.7. NEO-SHAMANISM
• 1.8. COMPARATIVE STUDIES
• 1.9. THE INTERPRETATION OF SHAMANISM
• 2 Buddhism and Spirit-Cults
• 2.1. PROLOGUE
• 2.2. THE BUDDHIST DHARMA
• 2.3. BUDDHISM AND NAT CULTS IN BURMA
• 2.4. BUDDHISM AND SPIRIT-CULTS IN THAILAND
• 2.5. RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN SRI LANKA
• 2.6. BUDDHISM AND FOLK RELIGION IN TIBET
• 2.7. BUDDHISM AND THE STATE
• 3 Islam and Popular Religion
• 3.1. PROLOGUE
• 3.2. THE ISLAMIC TRADITION
• 3.3. ZAR CULTS IN NORTHERN SOMALIA
• 3.4. ZAR CULTS IN THE SUDAN
• 3.5. THE SAINTS AND SCHOLARS OF ISLAM
• 3.6. THE HAMADSHA: A SUFI BROTHERHOOD IN MOROCCO
• 3.7. RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MOROCCO
• 4 Hinduism and New Religious Movements
• 4.1. PROLOGUE
• 4.2. SANSKRITIC HINDUISM
• 4.3. POPULAR HINDUISM
• 4.4. CULT OF THE GODDESS
• 4.5. BHAKTI CULTS
• 4.6. GURUS AND HINDU NATIONALISM
• 5 Christianity and Religion in Africa
• 5.1. THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
• 5.2. PROLOGUE ON AFRICAN RELIGION
• 5.2.1. God
• 5.2.2. Divinities
• 5.2.3. Ancestral Spirits
• 5.2.4. Medicine
• 5.2.5. Witchcraft
• 5.3. THE WORLD OF KONGO BELIEF
• 5.3.1. God
• 5.3.2. Ancestral Spirits (Bakulu)
• 5.3.3. Local Spirits (Bisimbi)
• 5.3.4. Witches [Ndoki]
• 5.3.5. Consecrated Medicines [Min’kisi]
• 5.4. PROPHETIC MOVEMENTS IN LOWER ZAIRE
• 5.5. RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN ZAMBIA
• 5.6. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN ZAMBIA
• 5.6.1. Cults of Affliction
• 5.6.2. Prophetic Cults
• 5.6.3. Watchtower and Witch-Cleansing Movements
• 5.6.4. Independent Churches
• 5.7. TSHIDI BAROLONG COSMOLOGY
• 5.8. ZIONIST CHURCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA
• 6 African-American Religions
• 6.1. PROLOGUE
• 6.2. VODOU IN HAITI
• 6.3. VODOU RITUALS
• 6.4. RELIGIONS OF JAMAICA
• 6.5. THE RASTAFARI MOVEMENT
• 6.6. RASTAFARI BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
• 6.7. RELIGIONS OF BRAZIL
• Catimbo
• Candombé
• 7 Religions of Melanesia
• 7.1. PROLOGUE
• 7.2. KWAIO RELIGION
• 7.2.1. The Ancestral Spirits
• 7.2.2. Kwaio Cosmology
• 7.2.3. Ritual Magic
• 7.2.4. Kwaio Rituals
• 7.3. RELIGION AND ECOLOGY
• 7.3.1. Spirits
• 7.3.2. Cosmology
• 7.3.3. The Ritual Cycle
• 7.3.4. The Functions of Rituals
• 7.4. MILLENARIAN MOVEMENTS IN MELANESIA
• 7.4.1. The Taro Cult
• 7.4.2. Vailala Madness
• 7.5. ROAD BELONG CARGO
• 7.6. THE INTERPRETATION OF MILLENARIAN MOVEMENTS
• 8 Neopaganism and the New Age Movement
• 8.1. PROLOGUE
• 8.2. THE CONTEMPORARY NEOPAGAN REVIVAL
• 8.2.1. Radical Polytheism
• 8.2.2. Ecological Perspective
• 8.2.3. Feminism
• 8.2.4. Decentralized Politics
• 8.2.5. The Celebration of Ritual
• 8.2.6. Emphasis on Spiritual Experience
• 8.2.7. Esotericism
• 8.3. THE ROOTS OF NEOPAGAN WITCHCRAFT
• 8.4. PAGAN PATHWAYS
• 8.4.1. Wicca
• 8.4.2. Feminist Witchcraft
• 8.4.3. Druidry
• 8.4.4. The Northern Tradition
• 8.5. THE WESTERN MYSTERY TRADITION
• 8.6. CONTEMPORARY RITUAL MAGIC
• 8.7. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY
• Conclusions
• References
• Index