The Minoans of Bronze Age Crete were unique in the Mediterranean for their rituals, including those pertaining to the snake ...

I am writing this article from Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, the Holy Land. We visit Israel twice a year to be with my son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter. My son moved to Israel ...

Batzmi is a seven-day religious observance, with its main celebration falling on the last Wednesday of December, placing it ...

“My wife and I have been members of a church for many years and have attended Sunday services as often as possible, which is we rarely miss them. The ritual of our early Sunday service with the coffee ...

Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...

The popular assumption that religiosity and morality are connected is widespread. Presumably, it is based on the inference that belief in a morally interested deity, who knows everything about ...

On Yahrzeit, anniversary of the death of any good Jew, a candle is lit in his honor. In synagogs and homes every Friday night candles are burned, and candles figure in many a Jewish ritual observance, ...

January brings a rare observance of two Shukra Pradosh Vrats in the Magh month. Check dates, puja muhurat, rituals and vrat ...