- •preface to the second edition
- •Introduction
- •Religion and reason
- •Magic
- •Religion and emotion
- •Buddhism
- •The coming of the millennium
- •The birth of the gods
- •Taboos and rituals
- •Religion and meaning
- •Secularisation
- •Religion and rational choice
- •Sects, cults and movements
- •Conclusion
- •Notes
- •Bibliography
- •Index
Index
Abercrombie, N. 190 Aberle, D. 240
aboriginees: Australian 9, 110, 111, 114, 116
Abrahams, R.D. 148
Acquaviva, S.S. 193
Adas,M. 103, 104 Adonis 71 Ahern, E.M. 51 Alfred, H.R. 258 Alston, W. 278 Ames, M. 89 Amish 237
Ammerman, N. 200 Anabaptists 101 ancestor worship 28, 124
Andaman Islands 130, 141 animism 14, 29
Anglican Church 235, 242–3 Anthony, D. 241, 242, 253, 254 anthropomorphism 32, 33–6 Applewhite, Marshall 282 Argyle, M. 278
Arjomand, S.A. 213 Aron, R. 117 Arunta 110, 111 Asad, T. 181
Attis 71 Augustine St. 83 Australia 200
Azande 8, 9, 15, 53, 127, 226, 267
Babbie, E. 258
Badcock, C. 150, 151
Bainbridge, W.S. 7, 186, 203, 205, 206,
207, 208, 215–28, 229, 235, 246–52,
253, 267, 268, 282
Baktaman 149
Balch, R.W. 265, 266, 267
Baptists 235, 242
Barker, E. 254, 256, 258, 261
Barnes, B. 48–49
Barth, F. 149
Basques 73
Bauman, R. 148
Beattie, J. 44–5, 149
Becker, G.S. 226
Beckford, J.A. 210, 212, 240, 245, 254,
260, 262, 265, 281
Beidelman, T.0. 149, 150
Beit-Hallahmi, B. 278
Belgium 174
Bellah, R.N. 9, 10, 185, 186, 203, 209,
253, 254, 277, 280, 281
Berg, C. 74
Berger, P. 2, 5, 7, 177, 181–3, 185, 186,
188, 189, 195–8, 201, 203, 208, 273,
274
Bettelheim, B. 279
Beyer, P. 186, 191, 199, 200, 201, 211
Bibby, R.W. 207, 208, 221
Bird, F. 253
Blau, J.R. 199
Bloch, M. 149, 150
Borhek, J.T. 266
Boyer, P. 278
Brazil 212
Breault, K.D. 199, 204
Britain 192, 194, 197, 200, 202, 204,
213, 245, 256, 281
Bromley, D.G. 260, 261, 262, 265, 269,
282
Brown, C. 186, 204
Brown, M.F. 53
Bruce, S. 186, 189, 191, 192, 194, 198,
199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 207, 212,
214, 222, 224, 225, 269, 270, 281
Bruderhof 237
304 Index
Buddha 16, 17, 160
Buddhism 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 82–90, 160, 163, 220, 221, 226, 277, 278; Mahayana 85; Theravada 14, 16, 20, 34, 82–90, 128
Bulmer, R. 146
Burma 83–6, 89
Burridge, K. 100
Burton, R.V 280 Byrne, P. 276, 278, 279
Calvin, John 168, 169, 174
Calvinism 166, 168–72, 174–6, 196, 233 Campbell, A.T. 53
Campbell, C. 19, 186, 208, 210, 266, 267, 281
Canada 200, 201 Cann D.E. 199, 200 Caplow, T. 193 cargo cults 99, 104–8 Carrier, H. 241 Carroll, M.P. 145, 146 Casanova, J. 186, 211
Catholicism 168, 169, 190, 196, 198, 200, 203, 233
Catholic Church 235–6 Cavanaugh, M.A. 4 charisma 157, 159
Chavez, M. 186, 187, 189, 199, 200, 222, 280
Children of God 252, 256, 257, 260 China 40, 51, 158
Christadelphians 237
Christian Science 237
Christianity 37, 71–2, 74, 85, 86, 98, 100, 102, 105, 106, 128, 164, 185, 190, 195–8, 201, 202, 229, 230, 231, 236, 275
Church of Positivism 27 Clarke, P. 278, 279 Cohen, Y 280
Cohn, N. 98, 99, 100, 102–4, 107, 108 Collins, R. 224
Comte, A. 25–7, 28, 185
Confucianism 158, 159 Congregationalists 235, 242 couvade 73
Cox, J.L 277 Crippen, T. 186
cult: concept 205, 246, 267 cultic milieu 266
Curtis, T. 241, 242
Curtis, R.F. 266
Darwin, C. 69 Davie, G. 186, 192
Davis, K. 133–4, 136, 151 Dawson, L.L. 4, 282
De Leon, Daniel 270
De Mola, P.F.L. 212 Deane, G. 199 Demerath, J.J. III 186
denomination: concept of 232, 234 Dieterlen, G. 278
Dippmann, J.W. 4
Divine Light Mission 252, 256, 257, 268
Dobbelaere, K. 186, 189, 207 Douglas, M. 143–6, 150, 153–4, 186,
189
Downton, J. 257, 261
Duke, J.T. 186, 205
Durkheim, E. viii, 14, 15, 19, 58, 59, 109–21, 122, 126, 130, 131, 134, 151, 180, 185, 219, 224, 277, 279
Edwards, T. 4
Eister, A.W. 281 Eliade, M. 4, 5, 278
Ellison, D. 222, 253, 254, 259 Ellwood, R. 256, 257, 258
Engels, F. 93, 96, 98, 100, 101, 102, 203, 280
England 205, 212, 235, 242 est 256, 257
Ethiopia 251
Evans-Pritchard, E.E 8, 15, 25, 28, 30, 58, 59, 69, 116, 120, 127, 226, 267
Evers, H.D. 89
Family 252
Fenn, R.K. 186, 206, 209–12, fetishism 25
Festinger, L. 266 Feuerbach, L. 91, 92
Finke, R. 194, 198, 199, 200, 204, 226– 7, 255
Firebaugh, G. 280
Firth, R. 40, 54, 144 Fischoff, E. 166 Fortes, M. 86, 278 France 121, 174
Franklin, Benjamin 166, 167
Frazer, J. viii, 25, 26, 29–30, 31, 38, 45, 55, 56, 63, 65, 66, 71, 94, 185, 278
Freeman, D. 75
Freud, S. viii, 59, 64–77, 79, 91, 94, 131, 142, 185, 278
Garrett, W. R. 3
Geertz, C. 177–81 Gellner, E. 47, 49, 213, 277 Gennep, A. Van 143, 152 Gerlach, L. 268
Germany 100, 101 ghost dance 106 Giddens, A. 137 Gilbert, A.D. 242–3 Gill, R. 194
Giorgi, L. 280 Glasner, P.E. 186
Glock, C.Y 240, 253, 254, 267, 281 Gluckman, M. 147, 149, 152, 153, 278,
279 Gogo 148
Gombrich, R.F. 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 278 Goode, W.J. 39
Goodridge, R.M. 189
Goody, J. 13, 15, 18 Gordon, D.F. 253, 254 Greeley, A. 186, 193, 280
Greil, A.L. 240, 264, 265, 268 Greyerz, K. von 176
Guthrie, S.E. 17, 23, 33–6, 221, 224, 277, 278
Hadaway, C.K. 193, 199
Hadden, J.K. 186
Hadza 145
Halévy, E. 243
Hamberg, E.M. 199
Hamilton, M.B. 279, 281, 282
Hampshire, A.P. 260
Hanegraaff, W. 277, 278
Hanson, S. 187, 189, 191
Hardin, B. 4
Harley, B. 280
Harrington, C. 278
Heaven’s Gate 282
Heelas, P. 260, 278
Heirich, M. 268
Hellemans, S. 186, 204
Herberg, W. 192
Herbrechtsmeier, W. 17, 23
Hervieu-Léger, D. 13
Hill, C. 280
Hill, M. 276
Hinduism 16, 140
Hine, V. 268
Index 305
Hobsbawm, E.J. 100, 104, 244
Holland 174, 193
Hollis, M. 276
Horton, R. 17–18, 21, 23, 31, 32–3, 34,
36, 46–50
Hostie, R. 278
Hout, M. 193
Hsu, F.L.K. 40
Hubert, H. 121
Huguenots 174
Humanae Vitae 193
Hume, D. 29
Hunter, J. 254
Hutterites 237
Iannaccone, L.R. 186, 189, 191, 198, 199, 214, 226–8, 235, 248, 255
Iceland 194
India 87, 103, 124, 128, 163 Indonesia 212
Ireland 199, 202
ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) 252, 256, 257, 258, 268, 269
Islam 128, 158, 212–13, 281 Italy 171, 174
James, W. 23
Jansenists 236
Japan 193, 194
Jehovah’s Witnesses 237, 245
Jesuits 236
Jesus People 252, 256
Johnson, B. 246, 249, 276
Johnson, G. 241
Johnston, B.L. 186, 205
Judah, J.S. 256, 257
Judaism 22, 140, 143, 146, 196
Jules-Rosette, B. 212
Jung, K. 55, 77–8, 278
Kardiner, A. 84
Kautsky, K. 197, 280
Kehrer, G. 4,
Kilbourne, B.K. 261
Kitahara, M. 280
Klass, M. 192
Kluckhohn, C. 127
Korea 255
Kunz, P. 265
La Have Islands 148
Land, K.C. 199
306 Index
Lambert, Y. 186
Lawson, E.T. 36
Leach, E. 44, 73, 74
Lechner, F.J. 186, 207
Lele 146
Leone, M.P. 260
Lessnoff, M.H. 175–6
Lett, J. 7
Lévi-Strauss, C. 75
Leviticus 143, 145
Levy-Bruhl, L. 38
Lewis, G. 149, 150
Lewis, I.M. 250–1
Lincoln, B. 280
Living World Fellowship 257
Lofland, J. 263, 264, 267, 268, 270, 282
Luckmann, T. 183–4, 185, 186, 192, 208
Luethy, H. 173, 174
Luhrmann, T.M. 210
Lukes, S. 276, 281
Luther, Martin 101, 168
Lutheranism 168, 169, 175
Machalek, R. 240, 261, 262, 263, 266, 267, 268
Mackinnon, M.H. 174–6
magic 14, 29–30, 31, 37–54, 64–7, 217, 225, 278; contageous 29; definition 39–40; homeopathic 29
Malays 40, 41
Malaysia 212
Malinowski, B. viii, 38, 39, 54, 55, 58– 64, 75, 117, 130, 141, 179, 218, 219
Mandelbaum, D. 89
Marett, R.R 14, 16, 55–60, 62
Marshall, G. 165, 171–3, 280 Martin, B. 212
Martin, D.A. 186, 187, 200, 205, 211, 213, 235, 267, 279, 281
Marx, J. 253, 254, 259, 280
Marx, K. 7, 91–7, 98, 100, 102, 105, 106, 115, 127, 161, 165, 185, 203, 274, 280
Mathisen, J.A. 281
Mauss, A.L. 254
Mauss, M. 121 McCauley, R.N. 36 McKown, D.B. 96, 279 Mead, M. 279
Melanesia 58, 99, 100, 104–7 Melton, J.G. 207, 255
Methodism 197, 198, 202, 213, 235, 242–4
methodological agnosticism 5–8 methodological atheism 5 millennial movements 97, 98–108 Miller, D.E. 260
Molendijk, A.L. 277 monotheism 25 Moody, E.J. 241 Morinis, R.L. 151, 152 Mormons 199, 238, 265
Moonies see Unification Church Mueser, P.R. 200
Morris, B. 4, 277, 278, 279, 280 Müntzer, Thomas 100–2
Nadel, S.F. 12, 13, 40, 41, 62, 63, 179 Navaho 127
Neitz, M J. 200 Nelson, G.K. 267, 281 neo-Paganism 37 Netherlands 174
New Age 37, 191, 192
New Guinea 149, 150
New Religious Movements 205–8, 229, 252–60
New Zealand 103
Nichiren Shoshu 252, 258, 269 Niebuhr, H.R. 232, 239, 247, 281 Nietzsche, F. 156
Norbeck, E. 147–8
Nova Scotia 148 Nupe 40, 41
Obeyesekere, G. 89, 90, 278
O’Dea, T. 137–9, 153
O’Keefe, D.L. 121, 278
Olson, D.V.A. 199
Oneida 237
O’Toole, R. 270, 277, 279, 280
Otto, R. 57, 278
Orru, M. 277
Paige, K.E. 151, 280
Paige, J.M. 151, 280
Palestine 105
Pali 82
Pals, D. 4
Peel, J.D.Y 48
Penner, H.H. 4, 19
Pentecostalism 236, 244–5
People’s Temple 252
Pereira de Queiroz, M.I. 212
Perl, P. 199
Peterson, D.W. 254
Phillips, C.S. 240
Phillips, D.Z. 9–11, 31, 57, 72, 149 Philp, H.L. 278
Pickering, W.S.F. 279
Pilarzyk, T. 240, 268
Plamenatz J. 96, 279 Platvoet, J.G. 277 Poland 199, 202 Polynesia 54 polytheism 25, 123–4 Poole, F.J.P 21
Pope, L. 233
Popper, K. 48
Preus, J.S. 25, 277, 278, 279 Pritchard, L.K. 255
Protestantism 165–76, 195–7, 202, 220 Proudfoot, W. 10, 11, 278
Quakers 237
Quietism 236
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. viii, 38, 117, 130– 3, 141–2, 180, 279
Rajneeshees 252
Rambo, L. 282
Rappaport, R.A. 149, 150, 279 Rastafarians 252
Ray, B. 279 Redfield, R. 90 reductionism 1, 4
Reformation 101, 168, 174, 196, 203, 235, 279
Regan, D. 213
Reik, T. 73, 150 reincarnation 82–4, 88, 124 religion: definitions of 12–18 Richardson, J.T. 261, 270 Rigby, P. 148, 149
rites de passage 146, 150–3 Rizzuto, A-M. 278
Robbins, T. 241, 242, 253, 254, 261, 262
Robertson, R. 17, 20, 23, 126, 127, 171, 234, 235, 249
Rochford, E.B. Jr. 258, 269 Ross, G. 49, 50
Rudy, D. R. 240, 264, 265, 268 Runciman, W.G. 18, 120 Russia 235
Ryan, B. 85
sacred: concept of 14–15 Samuelsson, K. 170, 171
Index 307
Saler, B. 21, 22, 23
Salvation Army 236 Sasaki, M. 193
Scharf, B. 19, 68, 136, 235 Schluchter, W. 280 Schwartz, G. 244
Scientology 237, 252, 256, 271 Scotland 171, 172, 173
sect: concept 205, 230–1, 233–4, 246 secularisation 97, 185–214
Segal, R. 4, 7, 273 Seggar, J. 265
Seventh Day Adventists 237, 244–5, 279
Sharot S. 186, 208 Sherkat, D.E. 199, 222, 280 Shils, E. 281
Shiner, L. 187, 188
Shupe, A.D. 260, 261, 262, 265, 269, 282
Silber, I.F. 278–9 Simpson, J. 128, 201 Skonovd, L.N. 268 Skorupski, J. 49–52, 149
Smith, W. Robertson 14, 70, 109–10, 131, 140, 141, 180
Smart, N. 277 Snoek, J.A.M. 277
Snow, D.A. 240, 261, 262, 263, 266, 267, 268, 269
Somalia 251 Sombart, W. 165 Sommerville, C.J. 186 soul 28, 114, 124–5,
Southwold, M. 9, 10, 21, 22, 87, 88, 89 Spencer, H. viii, 25, 26–7, 31 Spickard, J.V. 280
Spiritualism 237
Spiro, M.E. 15, 16, 17, 18, 78–81, 83, 221
Sri Lanka 83, 85, 89 St Vincent 148
Stark, R. 7, 186, 189, 191, 198, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 212, 214, 215–28, 229, 235, 246–52, 253, 263, 264, 267, 280, 281, 282
Stark, W. 194, 235, 247
Steiner, F. 140, 142, 143 Stone, D. 258, 259 Storr, A. 278
Strauss, R. 265, 270 Strenski, I. 4 Sudan 127, 251 Suzuki, T. 193
308 Index
Swanson, G. 121–9, 278, 279
Swazi 147, 149
taboo 50, 56, 70, 111, 112, 130, 140–6 Talmon, Y. 98, 99
Tambiah, S.J. 52, 63, 85, 86, 89, 146 Tammuz 71
Tamney, J.B. 212 Tanzania 148 Taoism 164, 220
Tawney, R.H. 171, 173, 280 Taylor, B. 240, 265 Taylor, C. 53
Taylor, D. 265, 266, 267 Thailand 85, 89 Thompson, E.P. 244 Thrower, J. 277, 278, 279 Tikopia 54, 144
Tipton, S. 241, 257–8 totemism 69–72, 76, 110–12 Towler, R. 3, 277
Transcendental Meditation 206, 252, 256
Trevor-Roper, H. 173 Trobriand Islands 58, 60, 63, 75
Troeltsch, E. 230–2, 239, 247, 267 Tschannen, O. 188, 202 Tsembaga 150
Turner, B.S. 115, 137, 190, 213, 273–4, 277, 281
Turner, V.W 151, 153, 278, 280 Tylor, E. viii, 14, 16, 25, 26, 28–9, 30,
31, 38, 45, 55–7, 65, 95, 185
Ullman, C. 282
Umbanda 212
Underbill, R. 128
Unification Church 252, 253, 255, 256,
260, 261, 263, 265, 267
United States 40, 97, 192, 193, 194, 198,
200, 202, 205, 207, 209, 211, 213,
214, 239, 244, 253, 255, 256, 257,
262, 280, 281
Virgin Mary 190
Vergote, A. 75
Verweij, J. 199
Vogt, E.Z. 40
Voyé, L. 186, 212
Wallis, R. 201, 202, 204, 207, 208, 210, 222, 224, 225, 242, 256, 258, 259, 260, 267, 269, 270, 271, 281
Walzer,M. 173
Wang, A. 277 Warner, R.S. 186, 213
Weaver, H.R. 207, 208, 221
Weber, M. viii, 2, 12, 37, 87, 155–70, 177, 179, 182, 195, 196, 217, 223, 224, 230, 240, 274, 275, 280
Welch, M.R. 238
Wesley, John 242
Westley, F. 254
Whiting, J.W.M. 84, 278, 280 Wiebe, D. 4, 23
Williams, R.H. 186 Winch, P. 276 Wittgenstein, L. 21, 276
Wilson, B. 22, 107, 108, 186, 187, 188, 189, 192, 197, 198, 201–4, 206, 207, 208, 233, 236, 238–9, 244, 276, 279, 280, 282
Wilson, B.C. 23 witchcraft 8, 125 Woodbery, R.D. 193
Worsley, P. 15, 100, 104–6, 108 Wulff, D.M. 74
Wuthnow, R. 186, 253
Yamane, D. 186, 188
Yinger, I.M. 19, 64, 135–7, 138, 153,
233
Yonan, E.A. 4, 19,
York, M. 278
Young, F.W. 280
Young, M. 281
Zaret, D. 175
Zaretsky, I. 260
Zen 257
Zulu 147