WHY STUDY RELIGION? WHAT IS RELIGION? SOME MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT STUDYING RELIGION PRESSING CONCERNS IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION WHAT WILL I STUDY? WHERE CAN I GO WITH IT? WHERE DO I START?

Books

  • African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life, Laurent Magesa
  • African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community, Benjamin C. Ray
  • Art and Religion in Africa, Rosalind I.J. Hackett
  • African Religions and Philosophy, John Mbiti
  • Ecstatic Religion, I.M. Lewis
  • The Land Looks after Us: A History of Native American Religion, Joel W. Martin
  • The Forest People, Colin Turnbull
  • Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays, Jean-Pierre Vernant
  • Native American Religions: An Introduction, Sam Gill
  • Native Religions and Cultures of North America: Anthropology of the Sacred, edited by Lawrence Sullivan
  • Nuer Religion, Edward Evans-Pritchard
  • Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians, Barbara G. Myerhoff
  • Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myth, and Personal Practice, edited by Byron E. Shafer
  • Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia, Jean Bottero
  • Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age, Antonia Tripolitis
  • The Religions of Oceania, Tony Swain and Garry Trompf
  • Shamanism, Mircea Eliade

GENERAL REFERENCE
THEORY AND METHOD
BUDDHISM
CHINESE RELIGIONS
CHRISTIANITY
INDIAN RELIGIONS
INDIGENOUS AND ANCIENT RELIGIONS
ISLAM
JAPANESE RELIGIONS
JUDAISM
RELIGION IN AMERICA
ZOROASTRIANISM
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