Rituals in Religion

Asad, Talal. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Bateson, Gregory. Naven. 2nd ed. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1958. Originally published in 1936.

Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.

Bloch, Maurice. From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Originally published in 1972.

Comaroff, Jean. Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Douglas, Mary. Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. London: Barrie Rockliff, the Cresset Press, 1970.

——. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.

Durkheim, Émile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Translated by Karen Fields. New York: Free Press, 1995. Originally published in 1912.

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Nuer Religion. Oxford, U.K., and New York: Clarendon Press, 1956.

Frazer, Sir James. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Reprint. New York: Gramercy Books, 1981. Originally published in 1890.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

——. The Religion of Java. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1960.

Griaule, Marcel. Conversations with Ogotemelli: An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas. London and New York: Oxford University Press for International African Institute, 1970. Originally published in French in 1948.

Harris, Marvin. Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches: The Riddles of Culture. New York, Random House, 1974

Radin, Paul. The Winnebago Tribe. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Originally published in 1923.

Rappaport, Roy A. Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1968.

Richards, Audrey. Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia. Reprint. London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1982. Originally published in 1956.

Smith, William Robertson. The Religion of the Semites: The Fundamental Institutions. Reprint. New York: Schocken Books, 1972. Originally published in 1889.

Spencer, Baldwin, and F. J. Gillen. The Native Tribes of Central Australia. Reprint. New York: Dover, 1968. Originally published in 1899.

Turner, Victor. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1967.

——. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine, 1969.

Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett. Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom. London: John Murray, 1871. Reprinted in 2 vols. as The Origins of Culture and Religion in Primitive Culture. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.

Van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage. Translated by Monika Vizedom and Gabrielle Caffee. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. Originally published in 1909.