Professor Sir Raymond Firth was a pupil and colleague of Malinowski at the London School of Economics and is internationally regarded as one of this century's great anthropologists. His books include Human Types (1938), Malay Fishermen (1946), Symbols Public and Private (1973) and range from We, the Tikopia (1936) to Tikopia Songs (1991).

• Chapter 1 An anthropological approach to the study of religion; Chapter 2 Religious belief and personal adjustment; Chapter 3 Spiritual aroma?; Chapter 4 Gods and God; Chapter 5 Offering and sacrifice; Chapter 6 Ritual and drama in malay spirit mediumship; Chapter 7 Faith and scepticism in kelantan village magic; Chapter 8 Paradox in religious systems; Chapter 9 The truth of religion?;

Professor Sir Raymond Firth was a pupil and colleague of Malinowski at the London School of Economics and is internationally regarded as one of this century's great anthropologists. His books include Human Types (1938), Malay Fishermen (1946), Symbols Public and Private (1973) and range from We, the Tikopia (1936) to Tikopia Songs (1991).

• Chapter 1 An anthropological approach to the study of religion; Chapter 2 Religious belief and personal adjustment; Chapter 3 Spiritual aroma?; Chapter 4 Gods and God; Chapter 5 Offering and sacrifice; Chapter 6 Ritual and drama in malay spirit mediumship; Chapter 7 Faith and scepticism in kelantan village magic; Chapter 8 Paradox in religious systems; Chapter 9 The truth of religion?;

Professor Sir Raymond Firth was a pupil and colleague of Malinowski at the London School of Economics and is internationally regarded as one of this century's great anthropologists. His books include Human Types (1938), Malay Fishermen (1946), Symbols Public and Private (1973) and range from We, the Tikopia (1936) to Tikopia Songs (1991).

• Chapter 1 An anthropological approach to the study of religion; Chapter 2 Religious belief and personal adjustment; Chapter 3 Spiritual aroma?; Chapter 4 Gods and God; Chapter 5 Offering and sacrifice; Chapter 6 Ritual and drama in malay spirit mediumship; Chapter 7 Faith and scepticism in kelantan village magic; Chapter 8 Paradox in religious systems; Chapter 9 The truth of religion?;