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\nAcknowledgments  \nPART I: Prehistory, Preparation, and  \nPerspective  \nIntroduction: Beginnings  \nNotes  \n1 Comparative Practices in Global History: If Horses  \nHad Hands  \nThe Comparative Practices of Polytheism  \nThe Comparative Practices of Monotheism: Early Judaism  \nThe Comparative Practices of Monotheism: Early Christianity  \nThe Comparative Practices of Monotheism: Early Islam  \nThe Comparative Practices of Asia: Hinduism  \nThe Comparative Practices of Asia: Sikhism  \nThe Comparative Practices of Asia: Confucianism, Daoism,  \nand Buddhism in China  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \n2 Western Origins and History of the Modern  \nPractice: From the Bible to Buddhism  \nDeep Upstream: Mystical Humanists, Protesters, Rationalists,  \nand Romantics  \nMid-Upstream: “Not as Moses Said,” or the Biblical  \nBeginnings of Critical Theory  \nJust Upstream: Colonialism and the Modern Births of  \nSpirituality and Fundamentalism  \nThe Immediate Wake: Counterculture, Consciousness,  \nContext, and Cosmopolitanism  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \n3 The Skill of Reflexivity and Some Key Categories:  \nThe Terms of Our Time Travel  \nThe History of Religions  \nPatterns of Initiation  \nThe Humanities: Consciousness Studying Consciousness  \nCultural Anthropology and Initiation Rites  \nWorking Definitions and Their Histories  \nThe Uncertainty Principle: The Insider–Outsider Problem (and  \nPromise)  \nReligious Questions as Ultimate Concerns  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \nPART II: Comparative Acts  \n4 The Creative Functions of Myth and Ritual: Performing the World  \nMyth: Telling the Story Telling Us  \nRitual: Acting Out the Story Acting Us  \nPatterns in Myth  \nPatterns in Ritual  \nComparative Practice: The Awakened One and the Great Heroin Ancient India  \nBeginning a Toolkit  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \n5 Religion, Nature, and Science: The Super Natural Religion and Contemporary Science  \nThe Paradox of the Super Natural  \nFood and Purity Codes: “You Are What You Eat”  \nNew Directions: Space Exploration, Dark Green Religion, and Popular Culture  \nComparative Practice: The Human Plant  \nThe Toolkit  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \n6 Sex and the Bodies of Religion: Seed and Soil In the Beginning …  \nThe Social Body: Sexuality, Gender, and Sexual Orientation  \nSex and Transgression  \nSuper Sexualities  \nThe Sexual Ignorance of the Religions  \nComparative Practice: The Two Ann(e)s  \nThe Toolkit  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \n7 Charisma and the Social Dimensions of Religion:  \nTransmitting the Power  \nCharisma and Community  \nThe Institutionalization of Charisma: Passing on the Charge  \nPatterns of Special Institutions  \nThe Miracle and the Saint: Signs of the (Im)possible  \nComparative Practice: The Flying Saint and the Levitating  \nMedium  \nThe Toolkit  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \n8 The Religious Imagination and Its Paranormal  \nPowers: Angels, Aliens, and Anomalies  \nSystem and Anomaly: Paranthropology  \nThe Sixth Super Sense  \nThe Imaginal: Not Everything Imagined Is Imaginary  \nThe Comparative Practices of Popular Culture  \nMiracles in the Making: The Fortean Lineage  \nFact and Fraud: On the Trick of the Truth  \nComparative Practice: Supernatural Assault Traditions  \nAdding to Our Toolkit  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \n9 The Final Questions of Soul, Salvation, and the  \nEnd ofAll Things: The Human as Two  \nTwo Scenes  \nThe Nature of Embodied Consciousness  \nPatterns of the Soul and Salvation in the History of Religions  \nSoul Practices  \nTraumatic Technologies of the Soul  \nComparative Eschatologies  \nComparative Practice: Re-Death, Near-Death, and After-Death  \nExperiences  \nThe Toolkit  \nThe Tough Questions  \nNotes  \nPART III: Putting It All Together Again  \n10 Faithful Re-readings: Exclusivism, Inclusivism,  \nPluralism, and Justice  \nThe Task of Theology: Relating Reason and 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