Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...

The Peyote Ceremony, often associated with the Native American Church, consists of a mix of native beliefs and practices along with Christian symbolism. God ... rebalancing with nature. Song and ...

Jewish rituals mark important stages of life ... Most Reform Jewish girls have a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.

Those who waited for days to enter that timeless space created by ritual may have benefited significantly from their participation ... The vice president’s mangling of the Christian ordo amoris is ...

The Olympic Opening Ceremony's controversy has renewed interest in divine dinners, during which sitting down for food is more than a meal.

Copal, a tree resin, produces a sacred smoke used in spiritual rituals and ceremonies for generations of Indigenous ...

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