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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: Theory

Chapter 1. The Religious: Can It Be Defined?
Chapter 2. Human Evolution and the Origins and Evolution of Religious Behavior
Chapter 3. The Independent Variable: Interaction with the Habitat
Chapter 4. Dependent Variables
Ritual Behavior
The Religious Trance
The Alternate Reality
Good Fortune, Misfortune, and the Rituals of Divination
Ethics and Its Relation to Religious Behavior
The Semantics of "Religion"

Part Two: Ethnography

Chapter 5. The Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 6. The Horticulturalists
Chapter 7. The Agriculturalists
Chapter 8. The Nomadic Pastoralists
Chapter 9. The City Dwellers

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 22/12/1988
      ISBN13: 9780253207265, 978-0253207265
      ISBN10: 0253207266

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction

      Part One: Theory

      Chapter 1. The Religious: Can It Be Defined?
      Chapter 2. Human Evolution and the Origins and Evolution of Religious Behavior
      Chapter 3. The Independent Variable: Interaction with the Habitat
      Chapter 4. Dependent Variables
      Ritual Behavior
      The Religious Trance
      The Alternate Reality
      Good Fortune, Misfortune, and the Rituals of Divination
      Ethics and Its Relation to Religious Behavior
      The Semantics of "Religion"

      Part Two: Ethnography

      Chapter 5. The Hunter-Gatherers
      Chapter 6. The Horticulturalists
      Chapter 7. The Agriculturalists
      Chapter 8. The Nomadic Pastoralists
      Chapter 9. The City Dwellers

      Conclusion

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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