James L. Cox is Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

’This is a valuable book.’ Journal of the American Academy of Religion ’... an interesting and challenging book.’ Anthropos

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions; Chapter 2 Essentialism and the World Religions Paradigm; Chapter 3 Defining ‘Indigenous’ Scientifically; Chapter 4 Towards a Socio-cultural, Non-essentialist Interpretation of Religion; Chapter 5 The Yupiit of Alaska; Chapter 6 The Adaptive Nature of Indigenous Religions in Zimbabwe; Chapter 7 Indigenous Religions and the Debate over Primitivism; Chapter 101 Afterword;