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 ...
Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger. Rituals aren’t meaningless actions. They can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect ...
Religious Studies, Vol. 50, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2014), pp. 445-464 (20 pages) This article discusses the ceremonial laws in Judaism as a language of religion and assesses their role within human ...
While introducing you to the six religious traditions featured in this course, I will periodically draw attention to three aspects (which I call "dimensions") of the way a human being preserves &/or ...
Monumentality / Chris Scarre -- Landscape / Randi Haaland, Gunnar Haaland -- Water / Terje Oestigaard -- Fire / Anders Kaliff -- Myth and folklore / Amy Gazin ...
In a recent blog post on HBR.org, I suggested that many of today’s successful brands are behaving like organized religions because they have adopted the same core principles that major organized ...