Bibliography for the Study of Magic Witchcraft and Religion

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Ake, Claude. (1966). Charismatic Legitimation and Political Integration. Comp. Stud. Soc. Hist. 9:1-13.

Allport, Gordon. (1950). The Individual and His Religion. New York: Macmillan. (Psychological aspects of religion.)

Arens, W. (1979). The Man-Eating Myth. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. (Good criticism of Harris and Harner theory about protein starvation and ritual cannibalism.)

Asad, Talal. (1993). Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

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Berkowitz, Morris J. and V. Edmund Johnson. (1967). Social Scientific Studies of Religion: A Bibliography. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press.

Bharati, Agehananda. (1972). Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion: Ritual and Belief Systems. In Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1971. B. Siegel, Ed. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press.

Bidney, David. (1950). The Concept of Myth and the Problem of Psychocultural Evolution. American Anthropologist 52:16-26.

Blasi, Anthony J. (1985). Ritual as a Form of the Religions Mentality. Sociological Analysis. 46(1):59-72. (The ideas of G. H. Mead are used as a basis for defining ritual.)

Bourguignon, Erika, ed. (1973). Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change. Columbus: Ohio State U. Press.

Bourguignon, Erika. (1976). Possession. San Francisco: Chandler and Sharp.

Bowen, John R. ed. (1998). Religion in Culture and Society. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Bowker, John Westerdale. (1973). The Sense of God: Sociological, Anthropological, and Psychological Approaches to the Origin of the Sense of God. Oxford: Clarendon.

Brodie, Richard. (1996) Virus of the Mind. Integral Press.

Brown, Judith K. (1963). A Cross-Cultural Study of Female Initiation Rites. American Anthropologist 65:837-53.

Bruce, Steve. (1993). Religion and rational choice: A critique of economic explanations of religious behavior. Sociology of Religion 54(2):193-205.

Buchler, Ira and Hans Selby. (1968). A Formal Study of Myth. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Burch Brown, Frank. (1996). The evolution of Darwin's religious views. Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press.

Calestro, Kenneth. (1972). Psychotherapy, Faith Healing, and Suggestion. International Journal of Psychiatry 10(2):83-113.

Campbell, Joseph. (1968). The Masks of God. I: Primitive Mythology. II: Oriental Mythology. III: Occidental Mythology, and IV: Creative Mythology. New York: Viking. (Mythological analysis.)

Cantril, Hadley. (1941). The Psychology of Social Movements. New York. John Wiley.

Child, Alice B. and Irvin L. Child. (1993). Religion and magic in the life of traditional peoples. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Crapanzano, V. and V. Garrison, Eds. (1977). Case Studies in Spirit Possession. New York: Wiley.

Davis, John, ed. (1982). Religious Organization and Religious Experience. Academic Press. ( A collection of papers on a wide variety of subjects: atheism, kibbutz, Dinka Catholics, Child evangelists in 16th century, Sri Lanka, Hindu reform, Zulu Christians, spirit mediums, music.)

Devereux, George. (1978). Ethnopsychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis and Anthropology as Complementary Frames of Reference. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

Dobzansky, Theodosius. (1965). Religion, Death, and Evolutionary Adaptation. In Context and Meaning in Cultural Anthropology. Melford Spiro, ed. New York: Free Press.

Durkheim, Emil. (1915). The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. (Various editions can be found. Classic theory of the origins of religion. Australian Aborigines.)

Durkheim, Emil. (1982). Durkheim on Religion. A selection of readings with bibliographies and introductory remarks. Routledge and Kegan Paul. (contains new translations.)

El Gundi, Fadwa. (1977). Religion in Culture. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown. (A brief introduction to anthropology and religion with a whole chapter on the structural analysis of a Zapotec ritual in Mexico.)

Eliade, Mircea . (19??). Patterns in Comparative Religion. Rosemary Sheed, trans. New York: World Publishing Co.

Eliade, Mircea. (1958). Birth and Rebirth: The Religious Meanings of Initiation in Human Culture. Willard R. Trask, trans. New York: Harper and Row.

Eliade, Mircea. (1959). Cosmos and History. The Myth of Eternal Return. Willard R. Trask, trans. New York: Harper and Row.

Eliade, Mircea. (1960). Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities. Philip Maret, trans. New York: Harper and Row.

Eliade, Mircea. (1963). Myth and Reality. New York: Harper and Row.

Epstein, Gerald N. (1978). The Experience of Waking Dream in Psychotherapy. In Healing: Implications for Psychotherapy. J. Fosshage and P. Olsen, eds. New York: Human Sciences Press.

Evans-Prichard, E. E. (1965). Theories of Primitive Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fabrega, Horacio. (1974). Disease and Social Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Firth, Raymond. (1955). The Fate of the Soul. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Firth, Raymond. (1959). Problem and Assumption in an Anthropological Study of Religion. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 89:129-148.

Foulks, Edward and Frances Schwartz. (1982). Self and Object: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork and Interpretation. A Review Essay. Ethos 10(3):254-278.

Frank, Jerome D. (1961). Persuasion and Healing. New York: Schocken Books.

Frazer, James G. (1911). The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. 12 vols. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. London: Macmillan. (A classic turn-of- the-century piece of anthropological scholarship. It is available in various abridged forms which are quite useful. It is an encyclopedic reference work with a folkloristic approach.)

Frazer, Sir James. (1958). The Golden Bough, Abridged Edition, New York: Macmillan. (A vast collection of lore.)

Freud, Sigmund. (1907). Obsessive Acts and Religious Practices. In Collected Papers, Vol. 2. Ernest Jones, ed. Joan Riviere, trans. London: Hogarth.

Freud, Sigmund. (1913). Totem and Taboo. New York: Norton. (Based on some unproven ideas about cultural evolution.)

Freud, Sigmund. (1928). The Future of an Illusion. (various editions. Freud takes a new look at religion later in his career and changes his ideas.)

Freud, Sigmund. (1939). Moses and Monotheism. New York: Vintage.

Fromm, Erich. (1950). Psychoanalysis and Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Psychoanalytic approaches to religion.)

Fromm, Erich. (1951). The Forgotten Language. New York: Rinehart. (Psychoanalytic approaches to religion.)

Furst, Peter T. (1976). Hallucinogens and Culture. San Francisco: Chandler and Sharp.

Gluckman, Max, Daryll Forde, Meyer Fortes, and Victor Turner. (1962). The Ritual of Social Relations. Manchester: Manchester U. Press.

Goldenweiser, Alexander A. (1917). Religion and Society: A Critique of Emile Durkheim's Theory of the Origin and Nature of Religion. The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods. 14:113-124.

Goode, William J. (1951). Religion Among the Primitives. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press. (Out of date analysis. Interesting collection of strange beliefs and customs without any good insight or understanding of them.)

Goodman, Felicitas. (1972). Speaking in Tongues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Goody, Jack. (1961). Religion and Ritual: The Definitional Problem. British Journal of Sociology, 12:142-164.

Guthrie, Stewart Elliot. (1993). Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. New York: Oxford.

Hammond, Dorothy. (1970). Magic a Problem in Semantics. American Anthropologist 72:1349-1356.

Harris, Marvin. (1974). Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches. New York: Random House.

Haskins, James. (1974). Witchcraft, Mysticism and Magic in the Black World.

Helm, June, ed. (1964). Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion. Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press.

Henderson, Joseph and Maude Oakes. (1963). The Wisdom of the Serpent. New York: George Braziller. (snake symbolism.)

Homans, George C. (1941). Anxiety and Ritual: the Theories of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown. American Anthropologist 43:164-172.

Horton, Robin. (1948). A Definition of Religion, and its Uses. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute. 90:201-226. (The Neo-Tylorian definition.)

Howells, W. W. (1948). The Heathens: Primitive Man and His Religions. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday. (Interesting customs bad analysis. out of date.)

James, William. (1961). The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Mentor Books.

Josephson, Brian D. (1993). Religion in the genes. Nature 362:583.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. (1972). Commitment and Community. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Kephart, William M. (1976). Extraordinary Groups. New York: Saint Martin's Press. (Communal groups with religious ideology. Gypsies, Amish, Oneida Community, Father Divine, Shakers, Mormons, Hutterites.)

Kiev, Ari. (1964). The Study of Folk Psychiatry. In Magic Faith and Healing. New York: The Free Press.

Kiev, Ari. (1972). Transcultural Psychiatry. New York.

Kitagawa, J. M. and C. H. Long. (1969). Myths and Symbols: Studies in Honor of Mircea Eliade. U. of Chicago.

Kleinman, Arthur. (1978). Concepts and a Model for the Comparison of Medical Systems as Cultural Systems. Social Science and Medicine 12(2B):85- 93.

Kluckhohn, Clyde. (1965). Myths and Rituals: A General Theory. William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt, Eds. Reader in Comparative Religion, 2nd ed. New York: Harper and Row, pp. 144-158.

Kolata, Gini. (1986). Anthropologists Suggest Cannibalism is a Myth. Science 232(4757): 1497-1500.

Kopytoff, Igor. (1964). Classifications of Religious Movements: Analytical and Synthetic, in Melford E. Spiro, ed., Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion. American Ethnological Society Proceedings.

Kroeber, Alfred L. (1920). Totem and Taboo: An Ethnologic Psychoanalysis. American Anthropologist, 22:48-55.

Kroeber, Alfred L. (1939). Totem and Taboo in Retrospect. American Journal of Sociology 45:446- 451.

La Barre, Weston. (1970). The Ghost Dance: Origins of religion. Garden City: Doubleday.

Lang, Andrew (1898). The Making of Religion. London Longmans, Green and Company, Ltd. (outdated ideas.)

Lanternari, Vittorio. (1965). The Religions of the Oppressed. Lisa Sergio, Trans. New York: Mentor Books, The New American Library. (Survey of modern religious movements throughout the world.)

Larsen, Egon. (1972). Strange Sects and Cults. New York: Hart Publishing Co.

Leach, Edmund, ed. (1967). The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism. London: Tavistock Publications.

Lehmann, Arthur C. and James E. Meyers. (1985). Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural. Palo Alto: Mayfield. (A collection of interesting readings on all these subjects.)

Lehmann, Arthur C. and James E. Meyers. (1997). Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural. Fourth Edition. Palo Alto: Mayfield. [A collection of interesting readings on all these subjects]

Lessa, W. A. and E. Z. Vogt, Eds. (1972). Reader in Comparative Religion. New York: Harper and Row.

Lessa, William A. and Evon Z. Vogt, Eds. (1965). Reader in Comparative religion: An Anthropological Approach, Second Edition. New York: Harper and Row.

Lester, David. (1972). Voodoo Death: Some New Thoughts on an Old Phenomena. American Anthropologist 74(3):368-390.

Leví-Strauss, Claude. (1955). The Structural Study of Myth. Journal of American Folklore. 68:42;8- 444.

Leví-Strauss, Claude. (1962). The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Leví-Strauss, Claude. (1963). Totemism. Translated by Rodney Needham. Boston: Beacon Press. French edition, Le Totemisme aujourd'hui, Paris, 1962).

Leví-Strauss, Claude. (1967). The Effectiveness of Symbols. In Structural Anthropology. New York: Doubleday.

Levy, David J. (1993). The measure of man : incursions in philosophical and political anthropology. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Lex, Barbara W. (1974). Voodoo Death: New Thoughts on an Old Explanation. American Anthropologist 76(4):818-823.

Linton, Ralph. (1943). Nativistic Movements. American Anthropologist. 45:230-240.

Lowie, Robert H. (1924). Primitive Religion. New York: Liverright Publishing Corp., 1948 (new ed.).

Lynch, Aaron. (1996). Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of Memes.

Mair, Lucy. (1969). Witchcraft. New York: McGraw-Hill. (Anthropologist compares witchcraft beliefs from around the world.) N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955 (new ed.).

Malinowski, Bronislaw. (1925). Magic, Religion, and Science. In Science, Religion, and Reality. J. Needham, ed. New York: Macmillan

Malinowski, Bronislaw. (1926). Myth in Primitive Psychology. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. (1948[1925]). Magic, Science, and Religion. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday.

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Marwick, M. G. (1965). Sorcery in its Social Setting. Manchester and New York.

Marwick, Max. (1970). Witchcraft and Sorcery Selected Readings. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. (1957). On Religion. Moscow.

May, Carlyle. (1956). A Survey of Glossolalia and Related Phenomena in Non-Christian Religion. American Anthropologist 58:75-91.

Middleton, John, ed. (1967). Gods and Rituals. Garden City, N. Y.: Natural History Press. (Reader on anthropological approaches to religion.)

Middleton, John, ed. (1967). Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing. New York: Natural History Press.

Middleton, John, ed. (1967). Myth and Cosmos: Readings in Mythology and Symbolism. Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press.

Moerman, Daniel E. (1979). Anthropology of Symbolic Healing. Current Anthropology 20(1):59-66.

Moore, Robert L. and Frank E. Reynolds. (1984). Anthropology and the Study of Religion. Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Morris, Brian. (1987). Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. Cambridge Univ. Press. (Covers theories by all the well-known writers: Marx, Durkheim, Freud, Weber, Jung, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Eliade, Leví-Strauss, Evans-Prichard, Douglas, Turner, Geertz, Godelier.)

Munn, Nancy. (1973). Symbolism in a Ritual Context: Aspects of Symbolic Action. In Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology. J. J. Honigman, ed. Chicago: Rand McNally.

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Norbeck, Edward. (1961). Religion in Primitive Society. New York: Harper.

Paloutzian, Raymond. (1983). Invitation to the Psychology of Religion. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman. (general modern text.)

Parsons, Talcott. (1961). Religion and Social Structure. In Talcott Parsons et al. Theories of Society, Vol. 1. New York: The Free Press, pp. 645-46.

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Radin, Paul. (1937). Primitive Religion: Its Nature and Origin. New York: Dover.

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Robbins, Rossell H. (1966). The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Crown Pub.

Sadier, A. W. (1964). Glossolalia and Possession: An Appeal to the Episcopal Study Commission. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 4:84-90.

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Simoons, Frederick J. (1967). Eat Not This Flesh. Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press. (food taboos.)

Skorupski, John. (1976). Symbol and Theory: A Philosophical Study of Theories of Religion in Social Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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Spiro, Melford. ed. (1964). Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion. Seattle: University of Washington Press (for the American Ethnological Society).

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Swanson, Guy E. (1964). The Birth of the Gods: The Origins of Primitive Beliefs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Cross-cultural study.)

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Walser, H. H., ed. (1971). Medicine and Ethnology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Warner, W. Lloyd. (1961). The Family of God. New Haven, CT: Yale U. P.

Wasson, R. G. (1968). Soma, Divine Mushroom of Immortality. Ethno-Mycological Studies, No. 1. New York: Harcourt Brace & World.

Wax, Murray and Rosalie Wax. (1963). The Notion of Magic. Current Anthropology 4:495-518.

Wax, Rosalie, and Murray Wax. (1962). The Magical World View. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1:179-188.

Weber, Max. (1963). The Sociology of Religion. Translated by Ephriam Fischoff. Boston: Beacon Press. (Religionssoziologie in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft).

Webster, Hutton. (1948). Magic: A Sociological Study. Stanford, CA: Stanford U.P.

Werbolwsky, R. J. Zwi. (1970). Man, Myth, and Magic: An Illustrative Encyclopedia of the Supernatural. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp.

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Whiting, John W. M. and others. (1958). The Function of the Male Initiation Ceremonies at Puberty. In E. E. Maccoby, T. M. Newcomb, and E. L. Hartley, Eds. Readings in Social Psychology. New York: Henry Holt & Co., p. 359-370.

Whiting, John. (1959). Sorcery, Sin and the Superego: A Cross-Cultural Study of Some Mechanisms of Social Control. In Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Wilson, Bryan. (1982). Religion in Sociological Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. (Good analysis of cults.)

Yinger, J. Milton. (1970). The Scientific Study of Religion. New York: Macmillan.

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Beet, Chris de. (1977). Bush Negro Prophetic Movements: Religions of Despair?. Bijdragen tot de tall-, land- en vokerkunde 133:100-135.

Heusch, Luc de. (1982). The drunken king, or, The origin of the state. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Translation of "Roi Ivre." Legends and rituals of African Bantu speaking people.)

Lienhardt, P. (1967). The Medicine Man, Oxford. (Africa.)

Nadel, S. F. (1952). Witchcraft in Four African Societies. American Anthropologist 54:18- 29.

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Taylor, Mark Kline. (1986). Beyond Explanation: religious dimensions in cultural anthropology. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. (The author proposes that there is a theological current in cultural anthropology)

Turner, Victor. (1967). The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell Univ. Press.

Turner, Victor. (1969). The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine.

Tambiah, S. J. (1970). Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Terwiel, B. J. (1975). Monks and Magic. Bangkok: Craftsman Press.

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Cohn, Norman. (1961). The Pursuit of the Millennium. New York: Harper and Row. (religious movements. revitalization.)

De Waal Malefijt, Annemarie. (1968). Religion and culture; an introduction to anthropology of religion. New York, Macmillan . (Introductory text)

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