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 ...

Professor Gruenwald’s lecture, titled “Ritual & Religion,” analyzes how ritual observance in Christianity and Judaism differ, but offer relatively similar functions. Gruenwald primarily discusses ...

The Easter Bunny is a much-celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might ...

Monumentality / Chris Scarre -- Landscape / Randi Haaland, Gunnar Haaland -- Water / Terje Oestigaard -- Fire / Anders Kaliff -- Myth and folklore / Amy Gazin ...

Native Americans who use peyote as part of a religious ritual show no long-term negative health effects and actually fare better than recovering alcoholics, according to Harvard researchers. A ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that a small congregation in Santa Fe can use hallucinogenic tea in its religious rituals. It's the first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice ...

This April, for the first time since 1991, Judaism’s Passover, Christianity’s Holy Week and Easter, Islam’s Ramadan, Sikhism’s and Hinduism’s Vaisakhi, Jainism’s Mahavir Jayanti, the Baha’i festival ...

The large crowd of men congregated at the center of a mosque in the central city of Yazd, Iran, clad in black and beating their chests rhythmically in unison. They were commemorating Ashura, Shiite ...

On a September day last year, between the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a group of worshipers gathered in a parking lot at the Woodland Hills Hebrew Discovery Center for a ...

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and worshippers as well as religious experts are freaked out by it. While the aarti robots and several others — like a ...