Magic, science and spirituality

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.

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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.

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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).