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Tables of Contents for Anthropology and Theology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables and Figures
xiii
Preface
xv
Walter Randolph Adams
Preface to Explorations in Anthropology and Theology
xvii
Frank A. Salamone
Introducing This Volume
1
32
Toward an Anthropology of Theology
1
6
The Papers: Integrating Themes
7
20
Organization of the Volume
27
3
Notes
30
3
Walter Randolph Adams
``Spirit'' in the Researching of Cultural Worlds: On Theology's Contributions to Anthropology
33
14
Reconceiving ``Theology'' for Anthropology
35
5
Theology in Dialogue with Anthropological ``Understanding''
40
2
Theology in Dialogue with Anthropology's ``Advocacy''
42
3
Notes
45
2
Mark Taylor
Beginning a Theology of Anthropology: Theological Reflections on Victor Turner's Last Work
47
12
A Theological View of the Relationship Between the Disciplines
48
3
What Theologians Can Learn From Anthropology
51
2
What Theologians Might Wish to Say to Anthropologists
53
1
Possible Theological Significance --- Turner as a Test Case
54
3
Notes
57
2
Robert D. Hughes, III
Christian Theology, Sin and Anthropology
59
18
Notes
74
3
Robert J. Priest
Crossing the Great Divide: What Anthropologists Might Learn From Theology
77
8
Notes
84
1
The Social Location of Sacred Knowledge
85
30
The Imagination
87
3
The Three Levels of Thought
90
25
The A-Level: The Utter Transcendence of God
91
1
The B-Level: The Role of the Imagination
92
1
The C-Level: The Infinite Variety of the Partial and the Mistaken i.e., the Mythical
92
2
Myths and Stories
94
1
To Narrate is Human, and Divine
95
6
Anthropomorphism
101
7
Mary as the Feminine Mask of God
108
2
Conclusion: Putting the Physical Back into the Metaphysical
110
3
Notes
113
2
Mark S. Mullinax
Feminist Spirituality, Theology and Anthropology
115
22
The Socio-cultural Characteristics of the the Feminist Spirituality Movement
116
3
New Theological Insights
119
5
Ritual Practice
124
3
The Essentialist Views of Feminist Spirituality
127
2
The Irony of Anthropological Critique
129
3
Notes
132
5
M. Jean Hariot
Theology and the Anthropological Study of Spirit Events in an Inupiat Village
137
26
Caveats in the Anthropological Study of Indigenous Religions
142
1
The Village
143
8
The Villagers' Working Conception of Spirituality Clues to Inupiat Theology?
144
3
The Whale and Eagle Spirits
147
1
The Whale Spirit
147
2
The Eagle Spirit
149
2
The Soul or Spirit
151
4
The Spirit at Death
152
1
Reincarnating Souls
152
3
The Spirit Helpers of the Healers
155
3
Spirit Figures Experienced by Inupiat Christians
158
1
Changes in Christian Theology, and Christian Apologies
159
2
Notes
161
2
Edith Turner
Theoretical Reflections on the Chagnon-Salesian Controversy
163
26
Introduction
163
3
The Issues
166
11
Reflections
177
3
Conclusion
180
4
Notes
184
5
Frank A. Salamone
The Theology of Change: Evangelical Protestantism and the Collapse of Native Religion in a Peasant Area of Mexico
189
14
Protestant Theology and Economics in Latin America
189
2
Theories Explaining the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism in Latin America
191
2
The Spread of Protestantism Within the Eastern Sierra of Hidalgo
193
6
San Nicolas
195
1
Santa Monica
196
2
San Pablo El Grande
198
1
Discussion
199
1
Notes
200
3
James A. Dow
Musings From the Field: Miters, Midwives and Maya Myths
203
32
Pondering the Place of the Heroic in K'iche Culture
203
3
Children of Guatemala: Holy Innocents
206
4
Sebastiana is Mrs. Lent
210
3
In Today's Guatemala, Where is the Prototypical Maya
213
20
Notes
233
2
David S. Baronti
Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) and the Professionalization of Theology
235
16
Introduction
235
2
Survey of Theoretical Comments
237
2
Independent Churches in Yorubaland
239
4
The Yoruba Traditional Religion
243
2
Liturgical Convergence of the Yoruba and Independent Christian Religion
245
3
Nigerian Economy and Spiritual Consultancy
248
3
Olugbemi Moloye
African Polygamy and Its Theological Lessons for America
251
22
The Problem: An Anthropological - Theological Perspective
251
6
Man-Sharing: An Ethnographic Interview
257
6
Inculturation Theology
263
5
Conclusion
268
3
Notes
271
2
Philip Kilbride
African-American Muslim Foodways: Nutritional Healing and the Construction of Identity
273
20
Notes
288
5
Kathleen Malone O'Connor
Adoring the Father: Religion and Charisma in an American Polygamous Community
293
24
Introduction
293
2
Angel Park: The Religious Community
295
3
Mormon Theology --- Christianity and Honoring Thy Father
298
2
Honoring of Fathers and Competing With Fathers
300
2
Familism: Competing With a Father's Reputation
302
3
The Charismatic Father: Imaging the Polygamous Family
305
3
Love, Ambivalence and Hostility: Resolving the Father
308
4
Conclusion
312
1
Notes
313
4
William Jankowiak
Emilie Allen
Natural Modeling in Lacandon Maya Mythology
317
20
Introduction
317
1
Natural Modeling in Maya Mythology
318
4
Natural Modeling Among the Lacandon Maya?
322
2
Environmental Awareness in Lacandon Life
324
1
The Milpa Cycle in Lacandon Mythology
325
7
Discussion
332
3
Conclusion
335
1
Notes
335
2
R. Jon McGee
``Back Home in Indiana:'' The Semiotics of Pilgrimage and Belief in Honor of an American Icon
337
26
Introduction
337
2
James Dean
339
3
Genesis of the Dean Image / Icon and Deaner Theology
342
4
Deaner Theology
343
3
Deaners: An Iconic Movement
346
1
Fairmount's Museum Days and Deaner Pilgrimage
347
2
Discussion
349
2
Semiotics and Pilgrimage
351
1
Transformation
351
3
Physical Transformation
352
1
Temporal Transformation
352
1
Existential Quest
352
1
Tactile Transformation / ``in Touch''
353
1
Journey Completion
353
1
Communitas
354
1
Coding and Decoding --- Semiotics Extended
354
3
Conclusion
357
1
Notes
358
5
James F. Hopgood
Processes and Dynamics of Community Fission and Maintenance: An Ojibway Case
363
28
Introduction
363
5
External Conditions
368
4
The Community's Response
372
4
Analysis
376
9
Conclusion
385
2
Notes
387
4
Walter Randolph Adams
Sacraments and Society: An Anthropologist Asks, What Women Could Be Doing in the Church?
391
16
The Missing Place for Women in a Hierarchical Community
394
3
Hierarchy and Sect
397
6
Doctrine as a Way of Life
403
2
Women as Caring, Compassionate, Constructive, Rational Beings
405
1
Notes
406
1
Mary Douglas
Anthropology and Theology: The Legacy of a Link
407
18
Theologians Occidental and Accidental
410
3
The Sacred and the Secular
413
2
Belief and the Social Scientists
415
1
The Theological Imagination
416
1
Is Theology a Universal
417
1
Institutional Structures
418
1
Unintended Rivalries
419
1
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
420
5
Stephen D. Glazier
Bibliography
425
46
Index
471
About the Contributors
463