Ritual and Memory Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

1 Preface 2 Introduction 3 Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa 4 Modes of Religiosity and the Legacy of Ernest Gellner 5 Is Image to Doctrine as Speech to Writing? Modes of Communication and the Origins of Religion 6 Ritual and Deference 7 The Doctrinal Mode and Evangelical Christianity in the U. S. 8 Embedded Modes of Religiosity in Indic Renouncer Religions 9 Conceptualizations From Within: Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist Perspectives 10 The Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity: Some Ethnographic and Theoretical Problems 11 Religious Doctrine or Experience: A Matter of Seeing, Learning or Doing 12 Universalistic Orientations of an Imagistic Mode of Religiosity: The Case of the West African Poro Cult 13 Towards a Comparative Anthropology of Religion