Author: Werbner, Richard P.
Title: Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey: The Process and Organization of Religious Movement
Description: Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, (1989). orig.boards. 24x16cm, ix,396 pp.. Textual photos & charts.. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Ritual Passage: Tswapong Wisdom Divination: Making the Hidden Seen; Kalanga Demonic Possession: The Cultural Reconstruction of a Domestic Domain; Kalanga Sacrifice: The Restorative Movement of Divinities & People; Umeda Masquerade: Renewing Identity & Power in the Cosmos; Sacred Journey: Dual Organization, Axis,& Sacred Center: Dialectical Representation in the New Guinea Lowlands; "Totemism" in History: The Sacred Crossing of West African Strangers; Regional Cult of God Above: Achieving & Defending the Macrocosm; Churches of the Spirit: The Argument of Images from Zion to the Wilderness; Postscript: Religious Movement in History.

Keywords: Comparative Religion, Regional Cults, Social Anthropology, Religious Rites, Ceremonies Ritual, Rituals Sociology, African Melanesian, Tswapong Kalanga, Umeda Structuralist