The Anthropology of Miracles and Visions

Bibliography

Subject 1: Magical Thinking

Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1965. Theories of Primitive Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Subject 2: The Origin of Religion and Evolution

Eliade, M. 1959. Cosmos and history : the myth of the eternal return. New York: Harper & Row.

Turner, V. 1969. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine Publishing,

Subject 3: Animism and Magic

Durkheim, E. 1915. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. London: Allen and Unwin.

Tambiah, J. Stanley, 1985. "Form and Meanings of Magical Acts. In: Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Subject 4: Structuralism and Totemism

Levi-Strauss, C. 1962. Totemism. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Subject 5: Religion as a Social System

Geertz, C. 1973. Religion as a cultural system. In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.

Lambek, M. 1993. Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte, Local Discourse of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Subject 6: Religion and Taboos

Douglas, M. 1966. Purity and danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo. London: Routledge & K. Paul.

Obeyesekere, Gananath (1981). Medusa’s Hair, An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Subject 7: Religious Agents

Gabler, Eric. 2002. Beyond Belief? Play, Scepticism, and Religion in West African Village. Social Anthropology, 10 (1), 41-56.

Subject 8: Religion and Gender

Abu-Lughod, L. 1986. Veiled sentiments, Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin society. California: University of California Press.

Boddy, Janice. 1989. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar cult in Northern Sudan. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Davidman. L. 1991. Tradition in a rootless world, Women turn to Orthodox Judaism. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Mahmood, Saba, 2005. Politics of Piety, the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Subject 9: Possessed by the Devil: Ethnography and Other Demons

Ewing, Katherine. 1994. Dreams from a Saint: Anthropological Atheism and the Temptation to Believe, American Anthropologist, 96 (3): 571-84.

Favret-Saada, Jeanne .1980. Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kearney, Michael, 1992. “A Very Bad Disease of the Arms”. In Philip R. De Vita (ed.), The Naked Anthropologist: Tales from Around the World. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, pp. 47-57.
Stoller, Paul and Olkes, Cheryl, 1989. In Sorcery’s Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Subject 10: Shamanism as Technique

Eliade, Mircea. 1964. Shamanism : Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. (translated from the French by Willard R. Trask). London : Routledge & K. Paul.

Viverios de Castro, Eduardo, 1998. "Cosmological Deixis and Ameridian Perspectivism", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4, 3, 469-488.

Humphrey, Caroline. With Urgunge, Onon. 1996. Shamans and Elders, Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Winkelman, James, M. 1992. Shamans, Priests, and Witches : a Cross-Cultural Study of Magico-Religious Practitioners. Arizona : Arizona State University.

Subject 11: The Shamanic Power and Authority

Hultkrantz, Ake. 1992. Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama : Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions . New York : Crossroad.

Thomas, Nicholas and Humphrey, Caroline (eds.). 1996. Shamanism, History and the state. Michigan: University of Michigan Press.

Subject 12: The Shaman's Career

Lewis, I.M. (1986) 1996. "The Shaman's Career". Religion in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McClenon, James. 2002. Wondrous Healing : Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion. Ililinois : Northern Illinois University Press

Jakobsen, M. D. 1999. “Neo-Shamanism and the New Age”, in: Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing. New York and Oxford: Bergahn Books, pp. 147-197.

Subject 13: Magic and Miracles

Magic and miracle, in Douglas, M. 1966. Purity and danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo. London: Routledge & K. Paul.

Waida, M. 1986. “Miracle”, The Encyclopedia of Religion. Eliade, M. (ed) Vol 9:541-548.

Ashe, Gregory, 1978. Miracles. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Kee, Clark, Howard. 1983. Miracle in the Early Christian World. New Heaven and London: Yale University Press.

Singleton, Andrew, 2001. “Your Faith Has Made You Well”: The Role of Storytelling in the Experience of Miraculous Healing”. Review of Religious Research. 43 (2): 121-138.

Shanafelt, Robert. 2004. Magic, Miracle and Marvels in Anthropology, Ethnos, 69, 3, 317-340.

Subject 14: Miracles and rituals in Rachels' Tomb

Sered, Susan, 1989. "Rachel's Tomb: Societal Liminality and the Revitalization of a Shrine", Religion, (19): 27-40.

Sered, Susan. 1986. "Rachel's Tomb and the Milk Grotto of the Virgin Mary: Two Women's Shrines in Bethlehem. Journal of Femenist Studies in Religion, 2 (2) 7-22.

Subject 15: Stigmata and Saints Shrines

McKevitt, Christopher. 1991. "San Giovanni Rotondo and the Shrine of Padre Pio". In: Contesting the Sacred, the Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage. John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow (Eds.). Routledge: London and New York, pp.77-97.

Carroll, Michael P. 1987. Heaven Sent Wounds: A Kleinian Viwe of the Stigmata in the Catholic Mystical Tradition, The Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology, 10, (1), winter, 17-38.

Sered, Susan, 1997. Symbolic Illness, Real Handprints, and other Bodily Marks: Autobiographies of Okinawan Priestesses and Shamans, Ethos, 25, 4, Dec, 408-427.

San Pio da Pietrelcina IN www.padrepio.it

Subject 16: Vision and Apparitions

Isichei, Elizabeth. 1991. “Visions and Visionaries: The Serach for Alternative Forms of Authority Among Catholic Conservative”, Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 75: 113-125.

Goodman, Felicitas, D. 1986. “Visions”, The encyclopedia of Religion. Eliade, M. (ed) Vol 15:282-288.

Subject 17: Women's Worship

Zimdars-Shwartz, Sandra, L. 1991. “Modern Marian Apparitions, Their Background, And Their Religious Milieu”, In: Encountering Mary. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Apparitions of Jesus and Mary, www.Apparitions.org

Subject 18: Guadalupe , Fatima and Lourdes: Rituals and the nation state.

Brading, David, A. 2001. Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Images and Traditions Across Five Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Herrero, Juan, H. 1999. “Mejugorje: Ecclesiastical Conflict, Theological Controversy, Ethnic Division, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion", 10: 137-170.

Eade, John. 1991. "Order and Power at Lourdes: Lay Helpers and the Organization of a Pilgrimage Shrine". In: Contesting the Sacred, the Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage. John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow (Eds.). Routledge: London and New York, pp.50-76.

Subject 19: The Miracles of Tinos and Pilgrimage .

Dubisch, Jill. 1995. In a different place: pilgrimage, gender, and politics at a Greek island shrine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Subject 20: The Cults of Females Saints: Pscho-Cultural View

Carrol, Michael. 1996. The Cult of the Virgin Mary. Prienceton: Preinceton University Press.

Subject 21: On Virginity and Sexuality

Hastrup, Kirsten. 1978. "Virginity". In: S. Ardener (ed.), Defininig Females. London: Croom Helm, 49-65.

Zimdars-Swartz, S.L. 1988. "The Virgin Mary: Mother as Intercessor and Savior of Society". In: Seeing Female: Social Role and Personal Lives, edited by S.S. Brehm, 69-79. New York: Greenwood Press.

Subject 22: Apparitions, Rituals and politics

Eade, J. 1991. Order and Power at Lourdes: Lay Helpers and the Organization of Pilgrimage Shrine". In: Contesting the Sacred, the Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage. John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow (Eds.) Routledge: Londong and New York, pp. 51-76.

Matter, A. E. 2001. “Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Late Twentieth Century: Apocalyptic, Representation, politics, Religion”. Religion. 31: 125-153.

Herrero, Juan, H. 1999. “Mejugorje: Ecclesiastical Conflict, Theological Controversy, Ethnic Division, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 10: 137:170.

Skrbis, Zlatko, 2005. "The Apparitions of the Virgin Mary of Mejugoje: The Convergence of Croatian Nationalism and her Apparitions", National and Nationalism, 11 (3): 443-462..

Subject 23: Visions, Social status and the Periphery

Wolf, Eric. 1958. "The Virgin of Gaudalupe: A Mexican National Symbol", Journal of American Folklore, LXXI:34-39.

Subject 24: Rituals, Identity and the Nation State

Bowman, Glen, 1993. "Nationalizing the Sacred: Shrines and Shifting Identities in the Israeli-Occupied Territories", Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(3), 431-460.

Subject 25: Magic, Holiness and Dreams

Tedlock, B. 1981. "Quiche Maya Dreams Interpretation". Ethos, 9, 313-330.

Tuzin, D. 1975. "The Breath of a Ghost: Dreams and the fear of the Dead", Ethos, 3:555-578.

Wallace, A.F.C. 1963. "Dreams and the Wishes of the soul", American Anthropologist, 60, 234-248.

Lanternari, Vittorio. 1973. "Dreams as Charismatic Significant: Their Bearing on the Rise of New Religious Movements" In T. R. Williams (ed.) Psychological Anthropology. The Hague: Mouton, 221-235.

Macklin, J. 2005. "Saints and Near- Saints in Transitions: The Sacred, the Secular and the Popular". In: The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground. J. Hopgood (ed.), Tuscaloosa: the University of Alabama Press, pp. 1-22.

Subject 26: Dreams and Culture

Crapanzano, Vincent. 1975. "Saints, Jnun, and Dreams: An Essay in Maroccan Ethnopsychology" Psychiatry 38: 145-159.

Bilu, Y. 2000. Without bounds : the life and death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana. Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press.