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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. PAPERBACK 1986. 21.5x13.5cm. x+257 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zbh.

Hardcover. 1st edition. xxxvi, 837, [1] p.; 24 cm. Papers from a symposium in November 1970 and a conference in April 1971. Main sections, with selected papers -- Introduction: The common foundation of religious diversity -- Section one. Church and state: limits of religious innovation within the social order -- Two. Language in culture and society: linguistic forms in ritual contexts. `Uncovering ritual structures in Afro-American music,' Morton Marks -- Three. Altered states of consciousness: processes of religious innovation and social change -- Four. Psychological dimensions of religious innovation. `Spiritualists and shamans as psychotherapists: an account of original anthropological sin,' E. Fuller Torrey; `Magical therapy: an anthropological investigation of contemporary satanism,' Edward J. Moody -- Five. Eastern philosophies and Western alienation: the social function of imported cults. `The Hare Krishna movement,' J. Stillson Judah; `The Meher Baba movement,' Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins-- Six. Symbols and innovation: belief systems and ritual behavior -- Seven. classificatory approaches: theologies in historiographical and sociological analysis. `Towards a sociology of the occult: notes on modern witchcraft,' Marcello Truzzi -- Eight. Religious innovation: processual considerations. `Pentecostalism: revolution or counter-revolution?' Luther P. Gerlach; `"Publish" or perish: Negro Jehovah's Witness adaptation in the ghetto, Lee R. Cooper; `The economic basis for the evolution of Mormon religion,' Mark P. Leone -- Conclusion. Perspectives for future research -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. NF red-blocked blue cloth, in lt. edgeworn magenta on blue dj.