"After carrying out two years of field research on a ‘cargo cult’ in New Britain, Papua New Guinea in the late nineties, he developed a theory of ‘modes of religiosity’ that hasbeen the subject of extensive critical evaluation and testing by anthropologists,historians, archaeologists, and cognitive scientists. In recent years, he has focused his energies on the development of collaborative programmes of researchon cognition and culture."Anthropologist Mary Douglas, in an interview with Alan Macfarlane, named Whitehouse as one of Britain's leading anthropologists Mary Douglas

• Whitehouse, H. Inside the Cult (1995)
• Whitehouse, H. Arguments and Icons (2000)
• Whitehouse, H. Modes of Religiosity (2004). Translated into Greek by Dimitris Xygalatas as ????? ????????????????, Thessaloniki: Vanias 2006. ISBN 9602881666.
• Whitehouse, H and Laidlaw, J. Religion, Anthropology and Cognitive Science (2007)

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