Ideas and Actions

REALM OF THE EXTRA-HUMAN:IDEAS (BHARATI) WA E-BOOK

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REALM OF THE EXTRA-HUMAN:IDEAS (BHARATI) WA E-BOOK

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I-XII -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE -- Spirit Possession Belief and Social Structure -- Pastoral Images and Values in Southwest Donegal -- Ritual and Religions: An Ethologically Oriented Formal Analysis -- The World/Nonworld Dichotomy -- Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting -- SECTION TWO -- Techniques of Control in the Esoteric Traditions of India and Tibet -- Suffering as a Religious Imperative in Afghanistan -- New Approaches to Religious Ethnology, Especially in Austria: Main Theses -- Religion and Ecology among the Great Basin Indians -- Hindu Ritual Idiom: Cosmic Perspective and Basic Orientations -- A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pjs as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels -- Shamanism and World View: The Case of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin -- Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure -- The Place of the Cactus Wine Ritual in the Papago Indian Ecosystem -- SECTION THREE -- The Violation of Taboo and Magical Power -- A Rjonga Curing Ritual: A Causal and Motivational Analysis -- Synoptic Comments on Religion, Ethos, and Science in American Culture -- In Search of the Miraculous at Zuni -- SECTION FOUR -- Signs and Symbols in Israeli Electioneering -- Inward-Looking and Outward-Looking Symbols -- Crosses and Souls -- Dreams as Charismatic Significants: Their Bearing on the Rise of New Religious Movements -- SECTION FIVE -- Moon and Reincarnation: Anthropogenesis as Imagined by the Surára and Pakidái Indians of Northwestern Brazil -- Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela -- Krou Popular Traditions in the Ivory Coast -- Religious Practices of a Mysore Village -- A Multiple Burial Custom of Korea: Ch'obun -- Permanence of Traditional Rites in the Tunisian Marriage Ceremony Today: An Interpretational Approach -- Aquatic Rites in the Danube Straits at the Iron Gates -- Folk Medicine in a Settlement of the Szekely People in the Southern Banat Region of Yugoslavia -- Belief and Cult in Human Prehistory -- Animal Sacrifices in the Balkans -- The Mystery Play and the Carnival -- Mythic Elements of Petroglyph Sites in the Upper Ohio Valley -- Family Religion in Japan: the Ie and Its Religious Faith -- Relics of Paganism among the Baltic Peoples after the Introduction of Christianity -- Epilogue -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects