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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Family scholars find religions that ask a lot tend to give back a lot — especially when devotion is accompanied by gentleness ...

DNA samples obtained from two cigars led detectives to two men accused of targeting and stealing military veterans's skulls from a Mount Dora cemetery for a religious ritual, authorities say. Brian ...

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 ...

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 ...