- Definitions of religion: analytical, functional, essentialist
- Function of religion: psychological reasons, social reasons
- Myth
- Supernatural
- Mana
- Animatism
- Animism
- Ritual
- Communitas
- Portrayal influence
- Magic
- Principle of imitation (similarity)
- Principle of contagion
- Divination
- The sacred
- Totem
- Patterns of belief: monotheism, henotheism, polytheism
- Religious Practitioners: shaman, priest, sorcerer, witch, Wiccans, medium
- Syncretic
- Revitalization movement
- Cargo cults of Melanesia
- The Ghost Dance
- Four categories of religion: indivualistic, shamanistic, communal, ecclesiastical
- Rites of passage: separation, liminal, incorporation
- Vision quest
- Religious demographics