Introducing Religion

PrefaceIntroducing SmithRussell T. McCutcheonCargo Cult Science and the Study of Religions:Genealogy in an Age of GlobalizationGregory D. AllesRedescribing Ma alas:A Test Case in Bodh Gay , IndiaJames B. AppleThe Gospel of Mark as Reflection on Exile and IdentityWilliam E. Arnal"Map-maker, Map-maker, Make Me a Map":Redescribing Greco-Roman 'Elective Social Formations'Richard S. AscoughBelief: A Classificatory Lacuna and Disciplinary "Problem"Catherine BellAn Occasion for ThoughtRon CameronComparing Prayer: On Science,Universals, and the Human ConditionArmin W. GeertzOn How Making Differences Makes a DifferenceJeppe Sinding JensenDeconstructing the Eliadean Paradigm: SymbolDarlene M. JuschkaComparison: Categories, Methods, and MischiefsKaren KingInsiders and Outsiders:Studying Hinduism Non-Religiously?P. Pratap KumarSmith, Derrida, and AmosFrancis LandyImagination Bound and UnboundE. Thomas LawsonTelling the Truth Can Be Dangerous BusinessGary LeaseFinding One's Place:Magic, Science, Religion, and InterdisciplinarityChristopher LehrichIs it Meaningful to Speak of a Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism?A Case Study in Taxonomical Issues in the Study of Ancient JudaismJack LightstoneThink Globally, Get Death Threats Locally:The Politics of Studying HinduismJ. E. LlewellynSacred Persistence?Burton MackReader as Producer:Jonathan Z. Smith on Exegesis, Ingenuity, ElaborationTomoko MasuzawaWhat Do Rituals Do? And How Do They Do It?Cognition and the Study of ReligionLuther H. MartinRe: PaulMerrill P. MillerRabbi JeremiahJacob NeusnerMaps, Genealogy, and Difference:Towards Recognition of Our Ambulatory NatureLieve OryeHominibus vagis vitam:The Wandering of Homo Hellenisticusin an Age of TransformationPanayotis PachisConnecting With Evolutionary Models:New Patterns in Comparative Religion?William E. PadenWhat a Difference Theory MakesHans H. PennerThe Ontology of ReligionStanley StowersComparing Law Comparing ReligionWinnifred Fallers SullivanThe Scientific Study of Religion and Its Cultured DespisersDonald WiebeIntroducing ReligionWilli Braun