Ritual Studies Archives

When Do We Worship?

If we sometimes wonder why people find mass boring, perhaps the answer has something to do with how well our liturgical space and action evoke a natural sense of worship and true adoration of God.

An ‘Abundance of Rituals’: selling spirituality in a systemic vacuum

October 10, 2020 Lizette Larson Devotions and Sacramentals Inculturation Ritual Studies

A few weeks ago, Timothy Brunk contributed a blog to this site titled Corporation Rituals (28 September 2020). It caught my eye because it captures

Corporation Rituals

September 28, 2020 Timothy Brunk Do It Rite Ritual Studies

On 28 August, the New York Times ran a story with the headline “God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both.”

The Liturgies Marking the Passing of a Loved One

September 20, 2020 Teva Regule Eastern Liturgy Funerals/Burial Inculturation Music: General Ritual Studies Uncategorized

9/16/2019 – One Year Later It was one year ago this evening that I received an unexpected call from Life Alert saying that my mother

Wait, can I do that?

September 11, 2020 Lizette Larson Ritual Studies

In a time of pandemic, how do our own ritual practices around the liturgy change? What retains the same meaning with different attire, and what is added or lost?