Religion, Anthropology, and Congnitive Science : Challenges for the Anthropology of Religion

Series Editors' Preface Ritual Studies and Cognitive Science: Anthropology's Shifting Boundaries ix Andrew Strathern Pamela J. Stewart Contributing Authors xxiii Introduction 3(34) James Laidlaw Harvey Whitehouse Part One Core Perspectives in the Anthropology of Religion Anthropology and Anthropomorphism in Religion 37(26) Stewart Elliott Guthrie Durkheimian Anthropology and Religion: Going in and out of Each Other's Bodies 63(18) Maurice Bloch Malinowski and Magical Ritual 81(24) Jesper Sørensen How ``Natives'' Don't Think: The Apotheosis of Overinterpretation 105(30) Jonathan A. Lanman Part Two Core Topics in the Anthropology of Religion Witchcraft and Sorcery 135(26) Emma Cohen Ancestors and the Afterlife 161(18) Rita Astuti Gods 179(32) Justin L. Barrett Part Three Social Anthropology, Religion, and the Cognitive Sciences A Well-Disposed Social Anthropologist's Problems with the `Cognitive Science of Religion' 211(36) James Laidlaw Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History, and the Cognitive Science of Religion 247(34) Harvey Whitehouse Subject Index 281(4) Author Index 285