Wondrous Healing: Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion.(Book Review)

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Wondrous Healing: Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion, by JAMES McCLENON. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. 216 pp., $ 40.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Wondrous Healing continues a cycle of publication that began with McClenon's Wondrous Events and provides an extended exposition of his "ritual healing theory" of religion. It is an important and worthwhile, original and potentially definitive, contribution to the theory of religion, not simply a theory about religion. The thesis will be controversial both among some sociologists of religion and ...

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