Sometimes we forget what rituals really mean until we are smack in the middle of one. Today’s first reading from Exodus and Gospel passage from Matthew both deal with ritual. In Exodus, God ...

Most Americans associate Cinco de Mayo with salt-rimmed margaritas and mountainous plates of nachos, but if you take a trip south of the border on May 5, you'll find the reality looks a lot different.

Description: We explore Día de los Muertos as a ritual that nurtures community, imbues loss with meaning, and helps us process grief while also connecting through shared joy. Summary: We investigate ...

For her M.A. thesis, Shannon Murphy '22 looked at the concepts of lamentation, hope, and ritual as ways to provide some “balm” to the pandemic and respond to the suffering and isolation that people in ...

World cup players swap jerseys - a ritual that may help create, and not just reflect, deep psychological meaning. Ritualistic behavior often gets a bad rap. At best, our tendency to infuse certain ...

Daily life is filled with challenges to our equilibrium and well-being. In some cases, we may be overcome with instability and in other cases, the days seem to march on in an unceasing yawn of ...

Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions? Day in and day out, our lives are filled with routines and habits that, while efficient, can feel uninspired and mundane. These routines ...

Archaeologists documenting tens of thousands of rock art motifs in the Colombian Amazon have been consulting with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists to help interpret their meaning. Ochre ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kian Bakhtiari writes about Gen-Z marketing and social impact. Native American tribes performed rain dances to summon their ...