"Demonstrates that ritual can be a potent therapeutic tool for healing difficult emotional/energetic blocks and traumas as well as for finding solutions to stre

This book explores the role of ritual in social life, human evolution, and religion. It explains the functions and purpose of varied rituals across the world by

More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the m

• Explains how ritual can serve as a way to ground yourself, invite in the new, let go of what needs to be shed, and tap into your own inner powers • Shares

Foreword / Betty Sue Flowers -- Preface. About the authors and their personal and academic engagements with ritual -- Introduction. What is ritual? Its definiti