Worship, Rites & Ceremonies

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant ...

The reader is taken on a journey to Dolpo, one of Nepal’s remotest Tibetan enclaves with a large community that follow the Bon religion. The presen...

The face of the divine feminine can be found everywhere in Mexico. One of the most striking features of Mexican religious life is the prevalence o...

This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in parti...

Waqfs, or religious endowments, have long been at the very center of daily Islamic life, establishing religious, cultural, and welfare institutions...

Gods of the Andes provides the first English translation of the earliest lengthy description of Inca religion, An Account of the Ancient Customs of...

In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depend...

Merton’s biographer, George Woodcock, once wrote that “almost from the beginning of his monastic career, Thomas Merton tentatively began to discove...

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological...

Why do thousands of Mormons devote their summer vacations to following the Mormon Trail? Why does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Day Sain...

This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethno...

People will see themselves in these stories about real men and women overcoming adversity with prayer. Cries from the Heart answers a specific spi...

Tracks the history of concepts and practices associated with the physical crossroads in the early modern period Breaks new ground in the area of l...

Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995–2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Thi...

This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It critically examines t...

This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It critically examines t...

'Touching Cloth can be compared to Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt and the writings of the Secret Barrister' Observer'I laughed my way through thi...

This book reviews tourist motivations for making religious or spiritual journeys, and the management aspects related to them. It explores sacred jo...

Reviewing peace and reconciliation, secular pilgrimages, and international perspectives on sacred journeys, this book offers the reader an opportun...

This book covers the ideological motives and religious perceptions behind travel to sites prescribed with sanctity in Judaism, Christianity and Isl...

Great Sacred Music, a free lunchtime event of spoken word and music for choirs and congregations, is a regular feature of the life at witness of St...

Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of th...

Singing is a very important human activity, argues Charles Moseley. It is about bonding, about a sense of shared community, as we see in modern foo...

This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodolog...

The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifi...

Funerals are among the most important life events in Western society, and fashioning a personalized ceremony for yourself or for a loved one is oft...

‘Sharp, angry, punchily philosophical and often funny. It basically invents a new type of lifestyle aspiration: deathstyle.’ The Times ‘Callender’...

The trend towards a more secular culture in Western society means that there can be greater flexibility in a wedding ceremony, but couples are ofte...