This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for the anthropology of religion.

Recommended Reading:

Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition by A. P. Elkin 1993

Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar by Karen Middleton (Editor) 1999

Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues by Paul G. Hiebert (Editor) 1994

Anthropology of Religion by Stephen D. Glazier (Editor) 1999

Arguments With Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics & Religion by Joan M. Lewis 1999

In the Beginning: The Navajo Genesis by Jerrold E. Levy 1998

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity by Melvyn C. Goldstein (Editor), et al 1998

The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age by Michael F. Brown 1999

Culture, Religion, and the Sacred Self: A Critical Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Religion by Jacob Pandian 1990

Dreams in Late Antiquity by Patricia Cox Miller 1998

Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism by William S. Lyon 1999

The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914 by Kathryn J. Oberdeck 1999

From Death to Rebirth: Ritual and Conversion in Antiquity by Thomas M. Finn1997

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James Frazer 1998

Haiti, History, and the Gods by Joan Dayan 1998

The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology by Claude Levi-Strauss, et al 1983

Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories by Graham Cunningham 1999

Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion by John Richard Bowen 1997

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity by Roy A. Rappaport 1999

Seven Theories of Religion by Daniel L. Pals 1996

Links:

1. Association of Cultural Mythologists: An association of academics that study mythology.
2. The Anthropology of Religion Section (ARS) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) was created in 1997 by the integration of three previously existing scholarly groups: the Anthropology of Religion Interest Group (affiliated with the AAA), the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (an independent non-profit organization), and an informal group of anthropologists who were working separately toward the formation of a section.
3. The Foundation for Mythological Studies: a non-profit organization that combines the study of global mythologies with the Jungian and Archetypal perspectives.
4. SHAMAN Journal of the International Society for Shamanistic Research
5. WWW Virtual Library of Religion contains a large collection of links concerning the World's great religious traditions.
6. Arlen Wolpert's General Theory of Religion Homepage: provides in-depth information about spirituality and religion
7. The 3rd Road: a living branch of Celtic shamanism; a school for pagan religion; and a community. This site is also a link to "Wiccan Miscellany", a potpourri of pagan links, spells, articles, and other magical sundries.