Benjamin C Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 287127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin C Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Salem Witchcraft Site
Richard B. Latner's teaching and research Web site comes with a valuable set of downloadable data tables and several essays that explain the contexts for the site's datasets. It is one of the most beautifully designed digital resources about the Salem witch-hunt currently available. Thanks to the new comprehensive edition of court records, Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (2009), edited by Bernard Rosenthal and a team of scholars, Latner has been …
The Salem Witch Mania: Recent Scholarship and American History Textbooks
A critical presentation of recent research on the Salem witch trials, this essay contrasts new scholarly findings with outdated accounts in current American history textbooks. The article draws attention to current scholarship that emphasizes the central role of religion in the Salem episode in contrast to past work that focuses on social and political aspects. The new research has significantly changed elements of the traditional textbook narrat…
The Geography of Witchcraft Accusations in 1692 Salem Village
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Satan's War against the Covenant in Salem Village, 1692
Using maps to plot the locations of church members, accusers, and accused witches in Salem village, the essay concludes that the belief that Satan had targeted village church members significantly influenced both accusers and magistrates and thereby produced the unprecedented number of witchcraft accusations and executions
A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age
The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary. A Magic Still Dwells brings together leadi…
Salem Witch Trials
Journal Article Salem Witch Trials Get access Benjamin Ray Benjamin Ray Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 17, Issue 4, July 2003, Pages 32–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/17.4.32 Published: 01 July 2003
Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion. Stewart Elliott Guthrie
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science. Robin Horton
Ritual Masks: Deceptions and Revelations. Henry Pernet , Laura Grillo
Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa. Vol. 1 . Jean Comaroff , John Comaroff
The Dawn of Belief . D. Bruce Dickson
Aladura Christianity: A Yoruba Religion
Aladura Christianity among the Yoruba of Nigeria is a distinctive form of Christianity that bears the full imprint of Yoruba traditional religion. While many churches in Nigeria exhibit certain Yoruba features, these are recognizably superficial and do not involve the deeply Yoruba religious stamp that is found among the Aladura. This, I should point out, is not merely the judgment of western observers but of Yoruba scholars as well. The nature a…
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda
The Koyukon Bear Party and the "Bare Facts" of Ritual
Jonathan Smith's recent interpretation of the classic "bear festival" among northern hunters is examined, together with his more general theory of ritual. Smith's interpretation of the bear festival is shown to be unfounded. The paper also investigates the well-documented bear rituals of the Koyukon of Alaska in light of Smith's general theory of ritual. Viewed in the context of other theories of ritual as symbolic action (those of Geertz, Dougla…
Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda
Common Ground: Christianity, African Religion, and Philosophy . Emmanuel K. Twesigye
Stonehenge: A New Theory
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People. Jean Comaroff
African Religious Movements: Phenomenology and History Modern Kongo Prophets: Religion in a Plural Society . Wyatt MacGaffey Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa . James W. Fer…
James G. Frazer's Correspondence With John Roscoe, 1907-1924
The Frazer collection at Trinity College Library, Cambridge, contains over 140 letters which Frazer wrote to the missionary anthropologist John Roscoe. Roscoe was with the CMS in Buganda from 1881 to 1909, and it was Frazer who first interested him in ethnographic work and guided his research. This led to the publication of The Baganda in 1911, the first, full-scale ethnography of an African society and an anthropological classic. Frazer's letter…
Casting out Anger: Religion among the Taita of Kenya
African Philosophy: An Introduction
The question of African philosophy do we have an African philosophy? investigating African philosophy the African philosophical tradition the African foundations of Greek philosophy time in Yoruba thought casual theory in Akwapim Akan philosophy how not to compare African thought with Western thought the categories of Mtu and the categories of Aristotle person and community in African traditional thought the human person and immortality in Ibo me…
The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations
An Anthropologist's Pilgrimage Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society . Victor Turner Australian Religions: An Introduction . Mircea Eliade Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Repres…
"Performative Utterances" in African Rituals
Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda
African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community
Draws upon recent fieldwork to present a variety of methodological approaches to the study of African religious history as a structural whole
Aladura Christianity: A Yoruba Religion
Aladura Christianity among the Yoruba of Nigeria is a distinctive form of Christianity that bears the full imprint of Yoruba traditional religion. While many churches in Nigeria exhibit certain Yoruba features, these are recognizably superficial and do not involve the deeply Yoruba religious stamp that is found among the Aladura. This, I should point out, is not merely the judgment of western observers but of Yoruba scholars as well. The nature a…
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda
The Koyukon Bear Party and the "Bare Facts" of Ritual
Jonathan Smith's recent interpretation of the classic "bear festival" among northern hunters is examined, together with his more general theory of ritual. Smith's interpretation of the bear festival is shown to be unfounded. The paper also investigates the well-documented bear rituals of the Koyukon of Alaska in light of Smith's general theory of ritual. Viewed in the context of other theories of ritual as symbolic action (those of Geertz, Dougla…
James G. Frazer's Correspondence With John Roscoe, 1907-1924
The Frazer collection at Trinity College Library, Cambridge, contains over 140 letters which Frazer wrote to the missionary anthropologist John Roscoe. Roscoe was with the CMS in Buganda from 1881 to 1909, and it was Frazer who first interested him in ethnographic work and guided his research. This led to the publication of The Baganda in 1911, the first, full-scale ethnography of an African society and an anthropological classic. Frazer's letter…
Sacred Space and Royal Shrines in Buganda
History of Religions in North America: The state of the art
Recent Studies of African Religions The Igbo-Igala Borderland: Religion and Social Control in Indigenous African Colonialism . Austin J. Shelton Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa . John Beattie …
"Performative Utterances" in African Rituals
History of Religions in North America: The state of the art
An Anthology of Kongo Religion: Primary Texts from Lower Zaire
African Religions, Symbol, Ritual, and Community
African Religions. Symbol, Ritual, and Community
African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community
Religion in Africa
An Anthropologist's Pilgrimage Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society . Victor Turner Australian Religions: An Introduction . Mircea Eliade Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Repres…
Sacred Space and Royal Shrines in Buganda
African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community
Draws upon recent fieldwork to present a variety of methodological approaches to the study of African religious history as a structural whole
African Philosophy: An Introduction
The question of African philosophy do we have an African philosophy? investigating African philosophy the African philosophical tradition the African foundations of Greek philosophy time in Yoruba thought casual theory in Akwapim Akan philosophy how not to compare African thought with Western thought the categories of Mtu and the categories of Aristotle person and community in African traditional thought the human person and immortality in Ibo me…
The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations
Casting out Anger: Religion among the Taita of Kenya
James G. Frazer's Correspondence With John Roscoe, 1907-1924
The Frazer collection at Trinity College Library, Cambridge, contains over 140 letters which Frazer wrote to the missionary anthropologist John Roscoe. Roscoe was with the CMS in Buganda from 1881 to 1909, and it was Frazer who first interested him in ethnographic work and guided his research. This led to the publication of The Baganda in 1911, the first, full-scale ethnography of an African society and an anthropological classic. Frazer's letter…
African Religious Movements: Phenomenology and History Modern Kongo Prophets: Religion in a Plural Society . Wyatt MacGaffey Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa . James W. Fer…
Stonehenge: A New Theory
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People. Jean Comaroff
Common Ground: Christianity, African Religion, and Philosophy . Emmanuel K. Twesigye
The Koyukon Bear Party and the "Bare Facts" of Ritual
Jonathan Smith's recent interpretation of the classic "bear festival" among northern hunters is examined, together with his more general theory of ritual. Smith's interpretation of the bear festival is shown to be unfounded. The paper also investigates the well-documented bear rituals of the Koyukon of Alaska in light of Smith's general theory of ritual. Viewed in the context of other theories of ritual as symbolic action (those of Geertz, Dougla…
Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda
Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa. Vol. 1 . Jean Comaroff , John Comaroff
The Dawn of Belief . D. Bruce Dickson
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