The images in texts and textbooks devoted to ritual are often of poor quality and limited due to cost. Since much ritual is highly visual, it makes sense that students of ritual tend to photographing rites. Photographing ritual opens up methodological and theoretical questions, but also technical and aesthetic ones. We offer here two different examples of [...]

Photos by Meike Heessels. Radboud University Nijmegen

Photos by Meike Heessels Radboud University Nijmegen

New All Souls Celebrations in the Netherlands are the result of collaborations between artists and cemeteries to offer new rituals of remembering the dead. The visitors are mostly Dutch and religiously unaffiliated. However, in bigger cities there are many visitors with multicultural backgrounds. Originally initiated by one artist in 2005, these celebrations have spread around [...]

A keyword search of Flickr, using “ritual” and “ceremony,” locates the images below. Dragging your cursor across a photo will show you viewing options, such as how to turn off and on written information about the image. We invite viewers to send us links to other photos or sites, including your own, that might be useful to [...]