"The work of a major scholar who has spent years writing and teaching about ritual, Deeply into the Bone instigates a conversation in which readers can fruitfully reflect on their own experiences of passage. Covering the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death, each ch...

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Main Author:	Grimes, Ronald L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2000
Series:	Life passages 1
Subjects:	Initiatie Overgangsriten Rites de passage Rites et cérémonies Religion Life change events > Religious aspects Rites and ceremonies Ritual Life-event-Forschung
Summary:	"The work of a major scholar who has spent years writing and teaching about ritual, Deeply into the Bone instigates a conversation in which readers can fruitfully reflect on their own experiences of passage. Covering the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death, each chapter includes first-person stories told by individuals who have undergone rites of passage, accounts of practices from around the world, brief histories of selected ritual traditions, and critical reflections probing popular assumptions about ritual. The book also explores innovative rites for other important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, becoming seriously ill, divorce and retirement."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:	IX, 384 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0520215338