Religion & Cultural Studies

List of Contributors vii Introduction ix Susan L. Mizruchi Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds 3(19) Jonathan Z. Smith Telling a Life through Haitian Vodou: An Essay Concerning Race, Gender, Memory, and Historical Consciousness 22(16) Karen McCarthy Brown Unseemly Commemoration: Religion, Fragments, and the Icon 38(18) Jenny Franchot The Place of Ritual in Our Time 56(24) Susan L. Mizruchi Human Solidarity and the Problem of Otherness 80(15) Giles Gunn Ascetics, Aesthetics, and the Management of Desire 95(15) Geoffrey Galt Harpham New Baptized: The Culture of Love in America, 1830s to 1950s 110(30) Richard Wightman Fox ``The Mystery of Life in All Its Forms'': Religious Dimensions of Culture in Early American Anthropology 140(52) Gillian Feeley-Harnik Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science, and Art 192(19) Jack Miles The Altar of Sin: Social Multiplicity and Christian Conversion among a New Guinea People 211(25) Eytan Bercovitch God On Line: Locating the Pagan/Asian Soul of America in Cyberspace 236(19) Bruce B. Lawrence Selected Bibliography 255(8) Index of Names 263