Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture

Paul-Francois Tremlett is Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK Liam Sutherland is a doctoral student in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Tylor, Why Now?—Graham Harvey, Liam Sutherland and Paul-François Tremlett
Part One: Contexts and Debates
1. ‘The Debate between E. B. Tylor and Andrew Lang over the Theory of Primitive Monotheism: Implications for Contemporary Studies of Indigenous Religions’, James Cox (Professor and Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
2. ‘Tylor, “Fetishes” and the Matter of Animism’, Graham Harvey (Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK)
3. ‘“Belief in Spiritual Beings”: E. B. Tylor's (Primitive) Cognitive Theory of Religion’, Jonathan Jong (Research Fellow and Co-Lead for Brain, Belief and Behaviour at Coventry University, UK)
4. ‘From Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theorizing about Myth in Britain and Germany: Tylor versus Blumenberg’, Robert A. Segal (Professor and holds a Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
5. ‘Tylor and Debates about the Definition of “Religion”: Then and Now’, Liam Sutherland (doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Part Two: Tylor beyond the Canon
6. ‘Edward Burnett Tylor as Ethnographer’, Miguel Astor-Aguilera (Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Arizona State University, USA)
7. ‘“Necromancy is a Religion”: Tylor’s Discussion of Spiritualism in Primitive Culture and in his Diary’, Anne Kalvig (Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Stavanger, Norway)
8. ‘Edward Tylor, Archaeologist? The Archaeological Foundations of ‘Mr Tylor’s Science’’, Katy Soar (Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham and an Honorary Research Associate at the Open University, UK)
9. ‘Telling Tylorian Tales: Reflections on Language, Myth and Religion’, Martin Stringer (Professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University, Wales)
10. ‘Deconstructing the Survival in E. B. Tylor’s Primitive Culture: From Memes to Dreams and Bricolage’, Paul-François Tremlett (Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK)
Bibliography
Index