There are many religious initiation rituals. As a Christian, for example, you are baptised, as this is how you are accepted into the circle of Christianity. In many societies, circumcision, tattooing, ...

Why are rituals so important to religion? This short animated film explores the fundamental role that religious ritual plays in bringing people together, marking important transitions in life and ...

A cross-cultural study of selected topics in the anthropology of ritual and religion including rites of passage, witchcraft, sorcery, myth, magic, spirits, death, symbols, ancestors, altered states of ...

Mindless Ritual Even the most devoted religious participants will usually concede that their frequent performances of rituals can from time to time devolve into automatic behavior. Their scripted ...

It traces the movement from the mid-second century CE through the sixth century, examining all surviving primary documents in both secular and canonical sources to offer a comprehensive account of the ...

Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious architecture, the ...

By Chronicle Staff Last year’s Christmas celebrations were also limited to religious rituals due to the ongoing genocide in ...