Dr. Stephen D. Glazier

Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1981

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
810 Oldfather Hall
P O Box 880368
Lincoln, NE 68588-0368

Email: SGlaz1234@aol.com
Phone: (402) 472-2411
Fax: (402) 472-9642

Subfield:

Cultural Anthropology
Caribbean Archaeology

Major Research Interests:

General Anthropology, religion, race and race relations, ethnohistory, the Caribbean

Dr. Glazier is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Faculty Fellow at the University of Nebraska -Lincoln. Among his publications are: Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook (1997), and The Encyclopedia of African and African American Religion (2000). Glazier serves as Secretary of the Anthropology of Religion Section of the American Anthropological Association and is President-Elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness.

Educational Background:

Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1981
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Yale University, 1982-1983
Graduate work, Princeton University, 1971-1974
A.B. Eastern College, 1971

Recent and Representative Publications:

Books and Monographs

2004. Anthropology of Religion: A Brief Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oneworld/Penguin Books

2003. Glazier, Stephen D. and Charles A. Flowerday, editors. Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger

2003. Buckser, Andrew S. and Stephen D. Glazier, editors. The Anthropology of Religious Conversion. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield

2000. Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (Volume V): African and African American Religions (general editor). New York and London: Routledge

1997. Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook (edited). Westport, CT: Greenwood (Paperback edition, Praeger, 1999)

1991. Marchin' the Pilgrims Home: A Study of the Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad (revised paperback edition). Salem, WI: Sheffield Publishing

1985. Caribbean Ethnicity Revisited (edited). New York and London: Gordon and Breach

1983. Marchin' the Pilgrims Home: Leadership and Decision-Making in An Afro-Caribbean Faith. Introduction by H. W. Bowden, Westport, CT: Greenwood

1980. Perspectives on Pentecostalism: Case Studies from the Caribbean and Latin America (edited). Washington, DC: University Press of America

Music Recording:

1980. Spiritual Baptist Music of Trinidad; Recorded in Trinidad by Stephen D. Glazier. FE 4234. New York: Folkays Record and Service Corp. (Re-issued in 1991 by Smithsonian/Folkways)

Articles and Chapters:

2007. "Racism" (pp. 363-367) in The Encyclopedia of Christian Missions. Jonathan J. Bonk, Editor. New York: Routledge

2006. "Beyond a Boundary': Life, Death, and Cricket in Trinidadian Conceptions of the Afterlife. Anthropology and Humanism 31 (2):172-184

2005. "Anthropology of Religion" (vol. I: 128-132); "Syncretism" (vol. V: 2150-2152); "Roy A. Rappaport" (vol. V: 1989-1990); and "Friedrich Maximillan Muller" (vol. IV: 1634-1636) In The Encyclopedia of Anthropology, H. James Birx, Editor. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference

2005. Being and Becoming a Rastafarian: Notes on the Anthropology of Religious Conversion. In Rastafari: A Universal Philosophy for the Third Millennium. Werner Zips, Editor. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, pp. 256-281.

2005. On Greenfield's Review of 'The Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions.' Reviews in Anthropology 34 (2): 211-213.

2005. "Roy A. Rappaport." The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (volume II, pp.1342-1344). Bron R. Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan, editors. New York and London: Continuum Publishers International

2005. Four entries: "Mystic, Connecticut" (p. 1486); "Free Will Baptists" (pp. 1305-1306); "Paugusset" (pp. 392-393); and "Camp Meeting Grounds" (p. 1297). The Encyclopedia of New England. David A. Watters and Burt Feintuch, editors. New Haven: Yale University Press.

2005. "Caribbean Religions: Pre-Columbian" (volume III, pp.1426-1432) and "Caribbean Religions: History of Study" (volume XV, pp. 10023-10030). The Encyclopedia of Religion. Second Edition. Lindsay Jones, General editor. New York: Macmillan Reference.

2004. "African-American and Caribbean Religions" (vol. I: 36-44); "DuBois, W. E. B."(volume II: 581-583); and "Religious Syncretism" (volume IV:1584-1588). The Encyclopedia of World History. William H. McNeill, editor. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group

2004. "W. E. B. DuBois" (pp, 363-368). Encyclopedia of Leadership. James Burns, George B. Goethals, and Georgia J. Sorenson, editors. Walnut Creek, CA: Sage Reference

2004. "Bourguignon, Erika." (pp. 69-70). Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vered Amit, editor. New York and London: Routledge

2003. Editors' Introduction. (with Charles A. Flowerday). Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 1-13

2003. "Creationism." (pp. 89-93) and "Slavery" (pp. 445-451). The Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom. Catherine Cookson, editor. New York and London: Routledge.

2003. Limin' wid Jah: Spiritual Baptists Who Become Rastafarians and Then Become Spiritual Baptists Again. The Anthropology of Religious Conversion. Andrew Buckser and Stephen D. Glazier, editors. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 149-170

2003. "Understanding Caribbean Religions" (with Joseph M. Murphy and Leslie G. Desmangles). Chapter 10 In Understanding Caribbean Cultures. T. d'Agostino and Richard Hillman, editors. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, pp.263-304.

2002. "Rada religion," "Spiritual Baptists," and "Rastafarians." In Religions of the World: a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Two volumes. J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, editors.

Santa Barbara: ABC/Clio.

2001. Adumbrations of Dread: Millennial Visions among Trinidad's Spiritual Baptists. Journal of Ritual Studies 15 (1): 17-26

2000. "Editor's Introduction;" "Spiritual Baptists," and "Spiritual Baptist Music" in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (Volume V): African and African American Religions (S. D. Glazier, general editor). New York and London: Routledge

1999. "Foreword." Special issue: Turkic and Siberian Shamanism in the Former USSR. Eva J. N. Fridman, guest editor. Anthropology of Consciousness vol. 10, no. 4

1999. Three entries: "Benjamin W. Arnett; "John Mifflin Brown", and "William Wallace Fenn." American National Biography. J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes, editors. New York: Oxford University Press

1999. Anthropology and Theology: The Legacies of a Link. Anthropology and Theology: Gods, Icons, and God-talk. Second Edition. F. A. Salamone and W. R. Adams, eds. Lanham. MD: University Press of America, pp. 209-223

1999. The Noise of Astonishment: Spiritual Baptist Music in Context. Religion, Diaspora, and Cultural Identity: A Reader in the Anglophone Caribbean, edited by J. W. Pulis. New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 277-294

1998. Contested Rites of the African Diaspora. New Trends and Developments in African Religions. P. B. Clarke, editor. London: Greenwood, pp. 105-119

1998. "Anthropology of Religion" and nineteen shorter entries. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. W. H. Swatos, Jr., editor. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press/ Sage

1998. Caribbean Religions: Pre-Columbian. Macmillan World Religions. New York: Macmillan Reference, pp. 120-123.

1997. Associate Editor's Foreword. Migrants, Regional Cultures, and Latin American Cities. Edited by Teofilo Altamirano and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Society for Latin American Anthropology Publication Series #13. Washington, D. C.: American Anthropological Association

1997. Embedded Truths: Creativity and Context in Spiritual Baptist Music. Latin American Music Review 18(1): 44-56

1996. New World African Ritual: Genuine and Spurious. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35 (4): 421-432

1996. "Authenticity" in Afro-Caribbean Religions: Contested Constructs, Contested Rites. Religion and the Social Order, L. F. Carter and D. Bromley editors. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, pp. 207-225

1996. Five entries. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. J. H. Brunvand, general editor. NewYork: Garland

1996. Changes in the Spiritual Baptist Religion, l976-1990. Ay BoBo: Afro-Caribbean Cults: Identity and Resistance. Teil 1: Kulte. M. Kremser, editor. Wien: Institut fur Volkerkunde der Universitat Wien, pp. 107-114

1995. Latin American Perspectives on Religion and Politics Latin American Research Review 30 (1): 247-255

1995. New Religious Movements in the Caribbean: Identity and Resistance. Born Out of Resistance: Caribbean Cultural Creativity as a Response to European Expansion. Wim Hoogbergen, editor. Utrecht: University of Utrecht/ISOR Press, pp. 253-262

1995. New Religions among Afro-Americans (Caribbean and South America), and New Religions: Afro-Suriname. HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion. J. Z. Smith, general editor. San Francisco: HarperCollins

1994. Looking at Latin American Religion: Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches. Reviews in Anthropology 23: 313-321

1994. Haitians: history, immigration and cultural contributions; and Jamaicans: history, immigration and cultural contributions. The Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism. S. Auerach, editor. North Bellmore, NY: Marshall Cavendish

1993. Guest editor's introduction: Special issue: Spiritual Baptists, Shango, and other African-Derived Religions in the Caribbean. Caribbean Quarterly 39 (S. D. Glazier, guest editor), pp. v-viii; 1-11

1993. Responding to the Anthropologist: When the Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad Read What I Write About Them. When They Read What We Write: The Politics of Ethnography. C. B. Brettell, editor. New York: Bergin and Garvey, pp. 37-48

1993. Twenty-nine entries. The African American Encyclopedia. M. W. Williams, editor. North Bellmore, NY: Marshall Cavendish

1992. Slavery and Social Death by O. Patterson, and The Content of Our Character, by S. Steele. Masterpieces in African-American Literature. F. N. Magill, editor. New York: HarperCollins

1992. A Comparative Study of Caribbean Pilgrimages: Haiti and Trinidad. Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage. A. Morinis, editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood, pp. 135-147

1991. Notes on Transculturation and Amerindian Religious Traditions. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology. A. Cummins and P. King, editors. St. Michael's, Barbados: Barbados Museum and Historical Society, pp. 232-236.

1991. Impressions of Aboriginal Technology: The Case of the Caribbean Canoe. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology. E. N. Ayubi and J. Haviser, editors. Willemstad, Curacao: Instituto di Arkeologia i Antropologia di Antia Ulandes, pp. 149-161

1991. Religion: Amerindian Traditions. The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia, vol, 2. S. Berdino, editor. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 588-591

1991. A Revised Aboriginal Ethnohistory of Trinidad (with A. E. Figueredo). Spanish Borderlands Sourcebook, vol. 13. D. H. Thomas, general editor. New York: Garland, pp. 237-240

1991. Funerals and Mourning in the Spiritual Baptist and Chango Traditions. Revista America Negra 1 (2): 123-134 (Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia)

1991. Symbolists Who Speak to Themselves: Recent Studies in Symbolic Anthropology: The Anthropology of Experience, edited by V. W. Turner and E. Bruner; Symbols That Stand for Themselves, by R. Wagner; and Religion in Context, by I. M. Lewis. Reviews in Anthropology 19 (1): 41-46

1991. The Politics of Persistence: The White Creoles of Trinidad. Florida Journal of Anthropology (Special Publication #7) 16: 25-32

1990. To Have But Not to Hold: Aboriginal Trinidad, l498-1592. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, A. G. Pantel, editor. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Forest Service, pp. 494-500.

1988. Worldwide Missions of Trinidad's Spiritual Baptists. The National Geographical Journal of India 34 (1): 75-78

1988. The Religious Mosaic: Playful Celebration in Trinidadian Shango. Theaters of Play, F. E. Manning, editor. Play and Culture Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, pp. 216-225

1988. Rastafarianism. The World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 16, p. 147

1987. Race and Race Relations in Trinidad. The International Handbook of Race and Race Relations. J. A. Sigler, editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood, pp. 321-337

1987. Caribbean Religions: Pre-Columbian. The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol 3. M. Eliade, general editor. New York: Free Press/Macmillan, pp. 81-90

1986. Geertz, Gods, and Good Beginnings: Two Disciplines in Dialogue. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 11 (3): 72-74

1986. Prophecy and Ecstacy: Religion and Politics in the Caribbean. Prophetic Religions and Politics. J. K. Hadden and A. D. Shupe, editors. New York: Paragon House, pp. 430-448

1985. Religion and Social Justice: Caribbean Perspectives. Phylon 46 (2): 283-299

1985. Presenting American Religious Folklife: A Panel Discussion (with E. J. Lawless, W. K. McNeil and J. T. Titon). Mid-America Folklore 13(2): 27-36

1985. Mourning in the Afro-Baptist Tradition: A Comparative Study of Religion in the American South and Trinidad. Southern Quarterly 23: 141-156

1985. Caribbean Ethnicity Revisited: Editor's Introduction. Caribbean Ethnicity Revisited. S. D. Glazier, editor. New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 85-97

1985. Syncretism and Separation: Ritual Change in an Afro-Caribbean Faith. Journal of American Folklore 98 (387): 49-62

1984. Organizacion social y economica de los Baptistas Espirituales con atencion especial a sus misiones en Venezuela. Revista Montalban 15: 5-41

1984. Why Celebrate Demons?: A Review of A Celebration of Demons, by B. Kapferer. Reviews in Anthropology 11 (3): 214-218

1983. Caribbean Pilgrimages: A Typology. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 22 (4): 316-325

1983. Cultural Pluralism and Respectability in Trinidad. Ethnic and Racial Studies 6 (3): 351-355

1983. Spiritual Baptist Outreach from Trinidad. Cultural Survival Quarterly 7 (3): 38-40

1983. Antique Maps and the Study of Caribbean Prehistory. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress for the Study of Pre-Columbian Cultures in the Lesser Antilles. Montreal: Centre de Recherches Caraibes, pp. 555-570

1982/83. African Cults and Christian Churches in Trinidad: The Spiritual Baptist Case. Journal of Religious Thought 39 (2): 17-25

1982. Spatial Behavior, Ethnicity and Social Organization in the Prehistory of Trinidad (with A. E. Figueredo). Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris 68: 33-40

1982. An Annotated Ethnographic Bibliography of Trinidad. Behavior Science Research 17 (1&2): 31-58

1982. Personal Symbols and Religious Experience: A Review of Medusa's Hair by G. Obeyesekere. Reviews in Anthropology 9 (2): 245-250

1982. The St. Joseph's and Mayo Collections from Trinidad, West Indies. Florida Anthropologist 35 (2): 208-215

1980. Commentary on Ward and Beaubrun. Journal of Psychological Anthropology 3 (3): 231-233

1980. The Boye in lsland-Carib Culture. La antropologia americanista en al actualidad: Homenaje al Raphael Girard. vol 2, Mexico City: Editores Mexicanas Unidos, pp. 34-46

1980. Heterodoxy and Heteropraxy in the Spiritual Baptist Faith. Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 8: 89-101

1980. Aboriginal Trinidad and the Guianas: An Historical Reconstruction. Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology, Walter Roth Museum, Georgetown, Guyana, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 119-124

1980. Religion and Contemporary Religious Movements in the Caribbean: A Report. Sociological Analysis 41 (2): 181-183

1980. Aboriginal Trinidad in the 16th Century, Florida Anthropologist 33 (3): 52-59

1980. A Note on Shamanism in the Lesser Antilles. Anthropological Research Paper #22. Tempe: Arizona State University, pp. 447-455

1980 Pentecostal Exorcism and Modernization in Trinidad, West Indies. Perspectives on Pentecostalism: Case Studies from the Caribbean and Latin America. S. D. Glazier, editor. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, pp. 67-80

1979. The Study of Regional Cults. Reviews in Anthropology 6: 229-234

1979. Pentecostalism, Exorcism and Modernization: A Caribbean Case Study. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 16 (2): 82-83

1978. Trade and Warfare in Protohistoric Trinidad. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress for the Study of Pre-Columbian Cultures in the Lesser Antilles. Montreal: Centre de Recherches Caraibes, pp. 279-282.

1978. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Trinidad's Prehistory. Journal of the Virgin Islands Archaeological Society 5: 32-35

1977/78. Bibliografia del Medium Espiritista y la Posesion Parte 1. Boletin del Museo del Hombre Dominicano 8: 125-159; Parte II, 9: 137-159