List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Frank A. Salamone

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Explorations in Anthropology and Theology

Walter Randolph Adams

Chapter 2 Christian Theology, Sin, and Anthropology

Robert J. Priest

Chapter 3 Crossing the Great Divide: What Anthropologists Might Learn from Theologians

Morton Klass

Chapter 4 Feminist Spirituality, Theology and Anthropology

M. Jean Heriot

Chapter 5 Theology and the Anthropological Study of Spirit Events in an Inupiat Village

Edith Turner

Chapter 6 Theoretical Reflections on the Chagnon-Salesian Controversy

Frank A. Salamone

Chapter 7 The Theology of Change: Evangelical Protestantism and the Collapse of Native Religion in a Peasant Area of Mexico

James W. Dow

Chapter 8 Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) and the Professionalization of Theology: The Re-emergence of Ritual Consultancy in Nigeria

Olugbemi Moloye

Chapter 9 African Polygamy and Its Theological Lessons for America

Philip Kilbride

Chapter 10 Adoring the Father: Religion and Charisma in an American Polygamous Community

William Jankowiak

Emilie Allen

Chapter 11 Natural Modeling in Lacandon Maya Mythology

R. Jon McGee

Chapter 12 "Back Home in Indiana" The Semiotics of Pilgrimage and Belief in Honor of an American Icon

James F. Hopgood

Chapter 13 Processes and Dynamics of Community Fission and Maintenance: An Ojibway Case

Walter Randolph Adams

Chapter 14 Sacraments, Society, and Women

Mary Douglas

Bibliography

Index

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