Introduction: Things of value / Ann Taves, Courtney Bender --
From a materialist ethic to the spirit of prehistory / Silvia Tomášková --
Conquering religious contagions and crowds : nineteenth-century psychologists and the unfinished subjugation of superstition and irrationality / Christopher White --
Religious and secular, "spiritual" and "physical" in Ghana / Birgit Meyer --
Volunteer experience / Erica Bornstein --
Secular humanitarianism and the value of life / Peter Redfield --
Homeschooling the enchanted child : ambivalent attachments in the domestic southwest / Rebecca Allahyari --
Mind matters : Esalen's Sursem group and the ethnography of consciousness / Jeffrey J. Kripal --
Tribalism, experience, and remixology in global psytrance culture / Grahan St John.

This collection of essays examines religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions in society.