Anthropology of Religion

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The Ethnography of Tantra

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Christianity and Politics in Tribal India

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

Christ Returns from the Jungle

An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage.

Till Kingdom Come

By Lokesh Ohri
Subjects: Asian Studies

The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.

Words of Destiny

Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

Native Foodways

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing

A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.

Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

Religious Journeys in India

Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.

Cambodian Buddhism in the United States

The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades.

Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints

A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.

Diversity of Sacrifice

Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present.

Figuring Religions

Offers new ways of comparing features of the world’s religions.

Becoming an Ancestor

A striking look at the death rituals of an indigenous community in North America.

The Politics of Spirit

A critical look at the development of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion, revealing its evaluative and metaphysical concepts.

Sacred Play

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

The Portugal Journal

The diary of Mircea Eliade, the seminal thinker on religion, during the period he served as a diplomat in Portugal.

Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

Tamil Geographies

How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.

The Encounter Never Ends

A reconsideration of the relationship between fieldwork and anthropological knowledge.

Women in Ochre Robes

Focuses on the lives of female Hindu ascetics and the significance of gender to the tradition of renunciation.

Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives

An exploration of Hindu women’s folk religion focusing on goddess worship and women’s rituals.

Religions and Cultures

Synthesis of Mediterraneum’s first seminar.

Paschal Beverly Randolph

This first scholarly work on Randolph includes the full text of his two most important manuscripts on sexual magic.

Reconstructing Eliade

Provides a coherent and defensible interpretation of Eliade's thought which allows less familiar readers to approach Eliade with a greater clarity and precision. Foreword by Mac Linscott Ricketts, a leading translator of Eliade's writings.