Tanice G. Foltz

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Associate Professor of Sociology 
Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
At IUNW since 1990

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS


BOOKS:

Kahuna Healer:  Learning to See with Ki, Garland Publishing, Inc.: New York, 1994.

 

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

 

“Contemporary Women Drummers and Social Action: Focus on Community Service.” The South Shore Journal  1 (2006), 56-68. 

“Women, Drumming and Community: An Exploratory Study” in The Journal of the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences. Vol. 7 (2003), 100-109.

“Women’s Spirituality Research: Doing feminism” in Sociology of Religion, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), 409-418, special issue on Gender and Religion.

 

“Sober Witches and Goddess Practitioners: Women’s Spirituality and Sobriety.” Diskus, No. 6, vol. 52. (2000) Online International Journal of New Religions.
www.uni-marburg.de/fbo3/religionswissenschaft/journal/diskus/#6 

 

Folz, Tanice and Wendy G. Lozano. “Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft  and Death.” Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Fall, 1990), 211-224.

 

“The Social Construction of Reality in a Para-Religious Healing Group.”  Social Compass, International Review of Sociology of Religion, Special Issue on Religion and Health, Vol. 34, No. 4: (1987), 397-413.

 

“Escort Services: An Emerging Middle Class Sex-for-Money Scene.” California Sociologist, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1979), 105-133. 

 

CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS:

“A Drumming and Re-enchantment: Creating Spiritual Communit.” L. Hume and K. McPhillips, eds., Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing: Aldershot, 2006. Pp. 131-43.

“The Commodification of Witchcraft in North American Culture.” Witchcraft and Magic in Contemporary North America, ed., Helen Berger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. 137-68 and 174-76.

“Women’s Spirituality Research: Doing feminism.” Reprinted in Feminist Narratives and the Sociology of Religion, eds., N. Nason-Clark and M.J. Neitz. Alta Mira Press: Walnut Creek, CA., 2001. Pp. 89-98.

“Into the Darkness: an ethnographic study of Witchcraft and death” with W.Lozano. Extreme Methods: Innovative approaches to social science research, eds., J. Mitchell Miller and R.Tewksbury. Needham Heights, MA. Allyn and Bacon, 2000. Pp. 155-167.

“Thriving, Not Simply Surviving: Goddess Spirituality and Women's Recovery from Alcoholism.” W. Griffin, ed., Daughters of the Goddess: Studies in Identity, Healing, and Empowerment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Alta Mira Press., 1999. Pp. 119-135.

Foltz, Tanice and Wendy Griffin. “‘She Changes Everything She Touches’: Ethnographic Journeys of Self Discovery.” C. Ellis and A. Bochner, eds., Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Alta Mira Press, 1996.  Pp. 301-29.

Foltz, Tanice and Wendy G. Lozano.  “Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft  and Death.” Reprinted in N. J. Herman, ed., Deviance: A Symbolic Interaction Approach. General Hall Publishers: Dix Hills, N.Y., 1995. Pp. 336-353.

“An Alternative Healing Group as a New Religious Form: The Use of Ritual in Becoming a Healing Practitioner.” R. K. Jones, ed., Sickness and Sectarianism: Exploratory Studies in Medical and Religious Sectarianism,  Gower:  Aldershot, 1985. Pp. 144-157.

“Becoming a Prostitute:  A Comparison between Lower Class and Middle Class Girls.” D.H. Kelly, ed., Criminal Behavior: Readings in Criminology.  St. Martin's Press:  N.Y., 1980. Pp 225-262.

 


Revised: 03/04/07.