Theory and Method Examination Reading List: Talal Asad. 1993. “The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category.” In Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam , pp. 27-54. The Johns Hopkins UP. Roland Barthes. 1972 (1957). “Myth Today.” In Mythologies , trans. by Annette Lavers, pp. 109-59. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Georges Batailles. 1989 (1973). Theory of Religion . Trans. by Robert Hurley. Zone Books. Catherine Bell. 1997. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions . Oxford UP. Pierre Bourdieu. 1991 (1971). “Genesis and Structure of the Religious Field.” Trans. by Jenny B. Burnside, Craig Calhoun, and Leah Florence. Comparative Social Research 13: 1–44. ---. 1991 (1984). “Social Space and the Genesis of ‘Classes’.” In Language and Symbolic Power , trans. by Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson, pp. 229-51. Harvard UP. ---. 1998 (1994). “The Economy of Symbolic Goods.” In Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action , trans. by Randall Johnson, pp. 92-123. Stanford UP. Pascal Boyer. 2002. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought . Basic Books. Wendy Doniger. 1998. The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth . New York: Columbia UP. Mary Douglas. 2002 (1966). Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo . Routledge Classics. Émile Durkheim. 1995 (1912). The Elementary Forms of Religious Life . Trans. by Karen E. Fields. The Free Press. Mircea Eliade. 1987 (1957). The Sacred and Profane: The Nature of Religion . Trans. by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt. ---. 1961. “History of Religions and a New Humanism.” History of Religions 1.1: 1-8. Sigmund Freud. 1989 (1927). The Future of an Illusion . W. W. Norton & Company . --- . 1990 (1913). Totem and Taboo . W. W. Norton & Company . Clifford Geertz. 1973. “Religion as a Cultural System.” In The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays , pp. 87-125. Basic Books. William Graham. 1989. “Scripture as Spoken Word.” In Rethinking Scripture: Essays from a Comparative Perspective , ed. by Miriam Levering, pp. 129-69. State U of New York P. Hans Kippenberg. 2002. Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age . Trans. by Barbara Harshav. Princeton UP. Claude Lévi-Strauss. 1963 (1955). “Magic and Religion,” Part 3 of Structural Anthropology , trans. by Clair Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Shoepf, pp. 165-241. Basic Books. Bruce Lincoln. 1989. Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification . Oxford UP. ---. 1996. “Theses on Method.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8.3: 225-7. Russell T. McCutcheon. 1997. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia . Oxford UP. Martin Riesebrodt. 2010. The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion . U of Chicago P. Edward Said. 1978. Orientalism . Vintage Books. Eric J. Sharpe. 1986. Comparative Religion: a History . Open Court. Jonathan Z. Smith. 2004. Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion . U of Chicago P. Stanley J. Tambiah. 1990. Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality . Cambridge UP. Victor Turner. 1969. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure . De Gruyter. Max Weber. 1993 (1922). The Sociology of Religion . Trans. by Ephraim Fischoff. Beacon Books..