Books
- The Glory, Jest and Riddle: James George Frazer and The Golden Bough (1969), PhD thesis, Yale University.
- Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (1978), University of Chicago Press 1993 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76357-9
- Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (1982), University of Chicago Press 1988 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76360-9
- To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual (1987), University of Chicago Press 1992 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76361-7
- Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity (1990), University of Chicago Press 1994 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76363-3
- Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion (2004), University of Chicago Press paperback: ISBN 0-226-76387-0
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“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
—Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
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—Carolyn Wells (1870–1942)
“No common-place is ever effectually got rid of, except by essentially emptying one’s self of it into a book; for once trapped in a book, then the book can be put into the fire, and all will be well. But they are not always put into the fire; and this accounts for the vast majority of miserable books over those of positive merit.”
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