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Starting points for your research

For your research project, you should a choose a topic that you would like to learn more about, and is related to religion as a cross-cultural and diverse phenomenon. This can seem a little daunting, but there are a lot of books written by anthropologists who have worked all over the world, in many different cultures, and with people who are part of many different religious traditions both large and small. Below are several highly recommended starting points. These books are in the Fisher Library two-hour loan collection. This list is somewhat selective; you are not limited to what is here. If you have a specific place, community or tradition that you want to explore, and you are having trouble finding a good starting point, you should immediately email Ryan for advice. (Librarians are also good sources of research help too!)

Asad, Talal. 1993. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Austin-Broos, Diane J. 1997. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Boddy, Janice. 1989. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press.

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. 2009. The Craft of Research, Third Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Brightman, Robert. 1993. Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Brown, Candy Gunther. 2011. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. 2011. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn. 3rd rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Burridge, Kenelm. 1969. New Heaven, New Earth: A Study of Millenarian Activities. New York: Schocken Books.

Chua, Liana. 2012. The Christianity of Culture: Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo. Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave Macmillan.

Deeb, Lara. 2008. An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Elisha, Omri. 2011. Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Geertz, Clifford. 1971. Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Harding, Susan Friend. 2000. The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.

Keane, Webb. 2007. Christian Moderns: Freedom And Fetish in the Mission Encounter. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Lambek, Michael. 1981. Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Luhrmann, T. M. 2012. When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. New York: Knopf.

Makley, Charlene E. 2007. The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Marshall, Ruth. 2009. Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mayblin, Maya. 2010. Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil: Virtuous Husbands, Powerful Wives. Basingstoke, Eng. Palgrave Macmillan.

McIntosh, Janet. 2009. The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Myerhoff, Barbara G. 1976. Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Ortner, Sherry B. 1989. High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Robbins, Joel. 2004. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Romberg, Raquel. 2003. Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press.

Rudnyckyj, Daromir. 2011. Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Stromberg, Peter G. 1993. Language and Self-Transformation: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tomlinson, Matt. 2009. In God’s Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Werbner, Richard. 2011. Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy: Apostolic Reformation in Botswana. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Wiegele, Katharine L. 2004. Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaii Press.