Contents
1.3 Shamanism and Altered States of Consciousness 19 1.4 Spirit-Possession and Shamanism 22 1.5 Siberian and Inner Asian Shamanism 25 1.8 Comparative Studies 37 1.9 The Interpretation of Shamanism 40 2 Buddhism and Spirit-Cults 44 2.2 The Buddhist Dharma 47 2.3 Buddhism and Nat Cults in Burma 54 2.4 Buddhism and Spirit-Cults in Thailand 58 2.5 Religious Change in Sri Lanka 63 2.6 Buddhism and Folk Religion in Tibet 68 2.7 Buddhism and the State 74 3 Islam and Popular Religion 77 3.2 The Islamic...
brian morris
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title www.cambridge.org 9780521852418 Brian Morris 2006 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place...
Preface
I have been teaching a course on the Anthropology of Religion at Goldsmiths' College, off and on, for almost thirty years. My writing of Anthropological Studies of Religion was in fact motivated by a felt need for an introductory text on the subject, even though I knew that some elitist Oxbridge scholars held such texts in general disdain. Indeed, one well-known anthropologist severely rebuked me for even teaching anthropology as a subsidiary subject at Goldsmiths, insisting that anthropology...
Religious Anthropologist Rose
This book is in a real sense an update and a sequel to my text Anthropological Studies of Religion 1987 . It thus offers a critical introduction or guide to the extensive anthropological literature on religion that has been produced over the past fortyyears or so - with a specific focus on the more well-known and substantive ethnographic studies. My earlier text gave a broad, historical but critical survey of the many different theoretical approaches to religion that had emerged since the end...