Ritual Studies | An International, Interdisciplinary Collaboration

1. Ritual Studies

Ritual Studies launched in 2009, with the aim of promoting the critical and creative study of ritual in academe, the arts, liturgics and related disciplines and practices. If you’d like us to post an upcoming event, the details of...

2. Skyros Carnival

SKYROS CARNIVAL is the 2nd volume in the VoxLox book series of art/anthropology dialogues. It features sixty color and black and white photographs by Dick Blau, an ethnographic essay by Agapi Amanatidis and Panayotis Panopoulos, and a CD...

3. Knowing Body, Moving Mind

Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto, Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti, are led and attended by Western (sometimes...

4. Ritual, Religion and Thea...

Call for Papers – SETC Theatre Symposium Volume 21 Ritual, Religion, and Theatre The Abydos Passion Play. The Dionysian festivals. Yaqui deer dances. Maypole dances. Mystery plays and Noh drama. Theatre of Cruelty, Poor Theatre,...

Subversive Spiritualites

New from Oxford University Press By Frederique Apffel-Marglin Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world’s peoples–the world’s social majority–quietly live in...

Negotiating Rites

New from Oxford University Press Edited by Ute Husken and Frank Neubert In common understanding, but also in scholarly discourse, ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of...

Confession App & the Ritual Body

Apple, through their I-Tunes site, has recently launched an “app”, approved by the Vatican, for performing confession on an i-pod. Clearly, the use of technology is radically altering the enactment...

The Other Side of the Water

The Other Side of the Water explores the 20-year journey of a traditional Haitian “rara” band in Brooklyn. The documentary offers a unique window into the Haitian-American experience and an exploration...

About

The aim of Ritual Studies is to facilitate interaction among students of ritual from around the world. Its purpose is to enhance research and teaching about ritual in the global ritual studies community.