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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-

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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


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


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


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


DATE: Jan., 2004

PAGES: 35-53

AUTHOR: Kane, John J.

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Protestant-Catholic Tensions

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: American Sociological Review


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


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


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


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


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



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


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


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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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



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



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


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


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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


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


DATE: Jun., 2008

PAGES: 246-267

AUTHOR: Pérez, Elizabeth

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Spiritist Mediumship as Historical Mediation: African-American

Pasts, Black Ancestral Presence, and Afro-Cuban Religions



DATE: 2011

PAGES: 330-365

AUTHOR: Matory, J. Lorand

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic

Religions



DATE: 2007

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PAGES: 398-425

AUTHOR: Birman, Patricia and David Lehmann

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Religion and the Media in a Battle for Ideological Hegemony:

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and TV Globo in Brazil

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Bulletin of Latin American Research


DATE: 1999

PAGES: 145-164

AUTHOR: Seligman, Rebecca

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Distress, Dissociation, and Embodied Experience: Reconsidering

the Pathways to Mediumship and Mental Health



DATE: Mar., 2005

PAGES: 71-99

AUTHOR: Hess, David J

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Ghosts and Domestic Politics in Brazil: Some Parallels between

Spirit Possession and Spirit Infestation



DATE: Dec., 1990

PAGES: 407-438

AUTHOR: Buckham, Matthew H.

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Reserve in Matters of Religion

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Harvard Theological Review


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


DATE: Sep., 1922

PAGES: 490-500

AUTHOR: Selka, Stephen

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: New Religious Movements in Brazil

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions


DATE: May 2012

PAGES: 3-12

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AUTHOR: Langdon, Esther Jean and Isabel Santana de Rose

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: (Neo)Shamanic Dialogues: Encounters between the Guarani and

Ayahuasca

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions


DATE: May 2012

PAGES: 36-59

AUTHOR: Handler, Jerome S

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Slave Medicine and Obeah in Barbados, Circa 1650 to 1834

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: NWIG: New West Indian Guide

VOLUME: Vol. 74, No. 1/2

DATE: 2000

PAGES: 57-90

AUTHOR: Paton, Diana

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Witchcraft, Poison, Law and Atlantic Slavery

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The William and Mary Quarterly


DATE: April 2012

PAGES: 235-264

AUTHOR: Perez y Mena, Andres

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Cuban Santería, Haitian Vodun, Puerto Rican Spiritualism: A

Multiculturalist Inquiry into Syncretism

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion


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


DATE: Spring, 2004

PAGES: 139-152

AUTHOR: Einstein, Albert

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Personal God Concept Causes Science-Religion Conflict

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Science News-Letter


DATE: Sep. 21, 1940

PAGES: 181-182

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AUTHOR: McCuskey, Brian

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Sherlock Holmes and Intelligent Design

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: The Quarterly review of Biology


DATE: September 2012

PAGES: 225-235

AUTHOR: Sherwood, Yvonne,

ARTICLE/CHAPTER TITLE: Binding-Unbinding: Divided Responses of Judaism, Christianity,

and Islam to the "Sacrifice" of Abraham's Beloved Son

JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE: Journal of the American Academy of Religion


DATE: Dec., 2004

PAGES: 821-861

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