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 ...

It is a reminder of how easily the discourse of religion can be mobilised by the privileged, abstracting away from the ...

A Jewish synagogue in Florida filed a lawsuit last week claiming the state’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks, HB 5, violates the right to free exercise of religion. It argues that it “threatens ...

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 ...

Last week, The Satanic Temple (TST) introduced “the Satanic Abortion Ritual”—a ritual designed to provide religious support and comfort for women who’ve decided to get an abortion. As Jane Essex, ...

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.8.2.0266 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.8.2.0266 Copy URL Abstract New developments in anthropology since the ...