According to an entry in the Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, a religious ritual is any repetitive and patterned behavior that is prescribed by or tied to a religious institution, belief or custom ...

Douglas Todd of the Vancouver Sun offers some cogent criticism of the effort to market environmentalism as a contemporary religion. “Modern environmentalism, by itself, is not comprehensive enough to ...

Brendan C. Walsh does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Bharat is often described as a land of rituals. From birth ceremonies to the final rites of life, every stage of human ...

THIS volume contains the author's twenty Gifford lectures for 1924 and 1925, expanded and regrouped into sixteen chapters dealing with the worship of the sky, the earth, and the sun. It is to be ...