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Books pertaining to psychologic of ritual and magic, ritual from a anthropological view, and, ritual as performance/protest
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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
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Thespis: Ritual Myth & Drama in the Ancient Near East
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Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
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From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play
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Manual of Psychomagic: The Practice of Shamanic Psychotherapy
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
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The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages
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Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
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From Ritual to Romance
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural
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Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
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Peter J. Carroll (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 3,071 ratings
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Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972-74
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Prometheus Rising
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Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali
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Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
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Kokopelli: The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol
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Man and His Symbols
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A General Theory of Magic
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
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PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC Creating Personal Symbols for Success
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Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
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Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
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Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
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Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
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The Forest of Symbols: Aspects Of Ndembu Ritual
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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition - Updated Edition
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Stuart A. Vyse (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works 12)
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Ecology of Consciousness: The Alchemy of Personal, Collective, and Planetary Transformation
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Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion
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The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
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The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
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Drumming at the Edge of Magic
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Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music
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The New Golden Bough
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Theories of Primitive Religion
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Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach
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William Armand Lessa (editor)
3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Primitive Religion: Its Nature and Origin
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Nuer Religion
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Food, Sex and Pollution: A New Guinea Religion
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Native Meso-American Spirituality
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From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
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4.16 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Christian liturgy retains aspects of ritual and transformation, or, a the great satirist Tom Lehrer put it in "The Vatican Rag," "Two-Four-Six-Eight / Time to transubtantiate..." I have refrained from including - but recommend - The Book of Common Prayer.
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