Ritual And Memory

Preface

Introduction
James Laidlaw (University Of Cambridge)
Divergent Modes Of Religiosity In West Africa
J. D. Y. Peel (School Of Oriental And African Studies)
Modes Of Religiosity And The Legacy Of Ernest Gellner
David Shankland (University Of Bristol)
Is Image To Doctrine As Speech To Writing? Modes Of Communication And The Origins Of Religion
Jack Goody (St John’s College Cambridge)
Ritual And Deference
Maurice Bloch (London School Of Economics)
The Doctrinal Mode And Evangelical Christianity In The U. S.
Brian Malley (University Of Michigan)
Embedded Modes Of Religiosity In Indic Renouncer Religions
James Laidlaw (University Of Cambridge)
Conceptualizations From Within: Divergent Religious Modes From Asian Modernist Perspectives
Susan Bayly (University Of Cambridge)
The Doctrinal Mode Of Religiosity: Some Ethnographic And Theoretical Problems
Leo Howe (University Of Cambridge)
Religious Doctrine Or Experience: A Matter Of Seeing, Learning Or Doing
Gilbert Lewis (St. John’s College, Cambridge)
Universalistic Orientations Of An Imagistic Mode Of Religiosity: The Case Of The West African Poro Cult
Christian K. Hjbjerg (University Of Copanhagen)
Towards A Comparative Anthropology Of Religion
Harvey Whitehouse

Additional Info
Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse’s theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse’s cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and refine Whitehouse’s theory and so contribute to a new comparative approach in the anthropology of religion.