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Items about ritual that are of current, popular interest.  We invite you to send  items (in the form of either links or embedding codes) for this page: webmaster@ritualstudies.com.

Rituals of Innovation. New technology creates new rituals of behavior, new belief systems and new rites of passage.

Obama Effigy Burning, a report from Israel.

Ritual Terrorism. Hating Obama as a new form of religion. A response to the report above.

Making Money on Rituals. How a Dutch company is getting rich selling ritual.

Hard Work or Ritual Power? Brief article regarding the influence of Nigerian movies on ritual practice.

Mocking Hindu Rituals? An article about performing rituals that attract media attention.

Death by Ritual. An article in Psychology Today about deaths in a Sedona, Arizona, sweatlodge ceremony.

The People’s Daily as Ritual Rather than News. On what grounds would anyone call the daily news “ritual?”

New Scientific Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience. A Vimeo discussion of cognitive psychology, religion, and ritual.

Ardie to Lucy to Laurie. A humorous article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about how Homo Sapiens Dies of Ritual.