According to an entry in the Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, a religious ritual is any repetitive and patterned behavior that is prescribed by or tied to a religious institution, belief or custom ...

(RNS) — Americans who had a good experience as children were likely to keep their faith. Those with bad experiences left, ...

Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger. Rituals aren’t meaningless actions. They can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect ...

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 ...

Morality and the social order among the Apa Tanis / Christoph Von Fürer-Haimendorf -- Amba religion / Edward H. Winter -- Pagan religion in a New Guinea village / H. Ian Hogbin -- Two Nuba religions : ...

A majority of adults still identify with their childhood religion, but 35% don’t. Read about when and why Americans may ...

The story you tell yourself about your afterlife affects your present life in subtle ways. Our beliefs about what happens to us after we die have shaped religions, cultures and personal philosophies.

Pew Research Center conducted this survey to explore the relationship between Americans’ religious beliefs and their views about the environment. For this report, we surveyed 10,156 U.S. adults from ...

An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...