Week 1: Introduction
1. Bohannon, L. (1966) ‘Shakespeare in the Bush’, Natural History: The Journal of the
American Museum of Natural History 75(7): 28-33.
2. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (1976) Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande (abridged
with an introduction by Eva Gillies), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 18-32 (Chapter II: The
Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events).
Week 2: Social frames for explaining things
1. Tomlinson, M. (2006) ‘A consuming tradition: Kava drinking in Fiji’, Expedition, 48(3): 8-17.
2. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (1976) Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande (abridged
with an introduction by Eva Gillies), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp 66-71 and 242-245.
Week 3: Ritual and Rites of Passage
1. Bowen, J. R. (2014) Religions in Practice, Boston: Pearson, pp: 48-67 (Chapter 4: Rituals of
Transition).
2. Wikan, U. (1990) Managing Turbulent Hearts, Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, pp. 142-171. (Chapter 8L Laughter, Sadness and Death Reconsidered).
Week 4: (Post)Secularism and Conversion
1. Connell, J. (2005) ‘Hillsong: A Megachurch in the Sydney Suburbs’, Australian Geographer,
36(3): pp. 315-332.
2. McIntyre, E.H. (2007) ‘Brand of Choice: Why Hillsong Music is Winning Sales and Souls’,
Australian Religion Studies Review 20(2): pp. 175-194.
Week 5: Marketing Religions
1. Maxwell, D. (2013) ‘Social Mobility and Politics in African Pentecostal Modernity’. In
Hefner, R. and Berger, P. (eds) Global Pentecostalism in the 21
Indiana University Press: 91-114.
st
Century, Bloomington:
2. de Witte, M. (2011) Fans and Followers: Marketing Charisma, Making Religious Celebrity
in Ghana, Australian Religion Studies Review, 24(3): 231-253.
Week 6: Materiality and Embodiment, Part I
1. Bowen, J. (2014) Religions in Practice, Boston: Pearson, pp: 141-153. (Chapter 10:
Boundaries and Selves in Orthodox Judaism).
2. Goldman Carrel, B. (2008) ‘Shattered Vessels that Contain Divine Sparks: Unveiling Hasidic
Women’s Dress Code’. In Heath, J. (ed.) The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and
Politics, Berkley: University of California Press: 44-59.
Week 7: Materiality and Embodiment, Part II
1. Cater, C. and Cloke, P. (2007) ‘Bodies in Action: The Performativity of Adventure Tourism’,
Anthropology Today, 23(6): 13-16.
2. Kensinger, K. M. (1973) ‘Banisteriopsis Usage among the Peruvian Cashinahua’. In Herner,
M. (ed.) Hallucinogens and Shamanism. New York: Oxford University Press: pp. 9-14.
Week 8: Ethnography of Religious Experience, Part I
1. Stoller, P. and Olkes, C. (1987) In Sorcery’s Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among
the Songhay of Niger, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, pp: ix-149.
And re-read from Week 2
3. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (1976) Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande (abridged
with an introduction by Eva Gillies), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp 66-71 and 242-245.
Week 9: Ethnography of Religious Experience, Part II
1. Stoller, P. and Olkes,C. (1987) In Sorcery’s Shadow: A memoir of apprenticeship among the
Songhay of Niger, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, pp: 153-236.
Week 10: Magic in the West
1. Malinowski, B. (1954) Magic, Science and Religion and other essays by Bronislaw
Malinowski, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, pp: 25-36 (Rational Mastery by Man of
His Surroundings).
2. Ezzy, D. (2003) ‘New Age Witchcraft? Popular spell books and the re-enchantment of
everyday life’, Culture and Religion 4(1): 47-65.
Week 11: Magic and Words
1. Tambiah, S. J. (1968) ‘The Magical Power of Words’, Man, 3(2): 175-208.
Week 12: Reflection
2. Kapferer, B. (1997) The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power, Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press, pp: 1-26 (Introduction).