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 ...

The background of spirituality and religion falls in the category of the fallacy, “you love waffles, so you ...

Rituals like chanting, prayer, and reflection foster resilience, reduce stress, and enhance spiritual wellness, grounding ...

Thank God, Allah has long had a diet that is good for humans both physically and spiritually. That diet is found in the Torah and in the Qur’an. Over many centuries the various legal schools have ...

The Easter Bunny is a much-celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might ...

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 ...

After completing the High Holidays, the global Jewish community is now entering Sukkot (the Festival of Booths), which is arguably the pinnacle of the biblical calendar. Sukkot is not only the last ...

Here's what to know about students participating in rituals and cultural celebrations while keeping up with their schoolwork.

Say what you want about the body modification trends of the 21st century, but our prehistoric ancestors did a number to their digits. Men and women of the Palaeolithic era in Western Europe may have ...

CHENNAI: Madras high court has reaffirmed that only the Thengalai sub-sect of Sri Vaishnava holds exclusive rights to lead ...

In a recent article in Wired, adapted from his book, DeSteno describes an experiment where strangers were paired up across a table wearing headphones and asked to tap a sensor each time they heard a ...

Divine revelations of babies being sacrificed in satanic rituals at Memorial Park led to the ambush and fatal shooting of an El Paso lawyer outside her Central El Paso home, the alleged gunman ...