Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-310) and index.
Introduction: The Moral Imagination -- 1. Primal Globalization -- 2. The Existing Ritual Toolkit -- 3. Three Hundred Years of Irrelevance -- 4. Satan's Strongholds -- 5. How the Missionaries Became Shrine Priests -- 6. Divergent Modes of Hermeneutics -- 7. States of Exception -- Conclusion: The Cross and the Machete