Religion

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Boyer, Pascal. Religion Explained. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.

Durkheim, Émile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Translated by Karen Fields. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Fitzgerald, Tim. The Ideology of Religious Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Lincoln, Bruce. Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Mack, Burton. Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy. London: Continuum, 2001.

Masuzawa, Tomoko. The Invention of World Religions, or How the Idea of European Hegemony Came to be Expressed in the Language of Pluralism and Diversity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

McCutcheon, Russell T. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Morris, Brian. Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Peterson, Derek, and Darren Walhof, eds. The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Saler, Benson. Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1993.

Smith, Brian K. Reflections and Resemblance, Ritual, and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Smith, Jonathan Z. "Classification." In Guide to the Study of Religion. Edited by Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon. London: Continuum, 2000.

——. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. The Meaning and End of Religion. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1991.

van der Leeuw, Gerardus. Religion in Essence and Manifestation. 2 vols. Translated by J. E. Turner. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

Weber, Max. The Sociology of Religion. Introduction by Talcott Parsons and translated by Ephraim Fischoff. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Wiebe, Donald. The Politics of Religious Studies. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.