6: Ritual and Religion Last updated Save as PDF Page ID 5322 Wikibooks - Cultural Anthropology Wikibooks 6.1: Ritual, Religion, and Myth 6.2: Origin of Religion 6.3: Functions of Religion 6.4: Concepts of Supernatural Beings 6.5: How Beliefs are Expressed 6.6: Syncretism and Exclusivism 6.7: Religious Specialists 6.8: Ritual 6.9: World Religions 6.10: Doomsday Cults 6.11: Chapter Glossary and References Thumbnail image - Head shaman of Olkhon at Lake Baikal. Buryatia, Russia. (CC BY-SA 3.0; Аркадий Зарубин via Wikimedia Commons. ).