As I stood waiting for the sun to rise over the Great Rift Valley and the climax of Shadrack’s passage to manhood ... Nor are there, in our milieu, rituals or overt rites of initiation that ...

The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar’s Shan people enter monastic life for up ...

On the seventh day after birth, the child's head is shaved. This is called Aqiqah and is performed as part of the naming ceremony. Many Muslims view Aqiqah as desirable, but some see it as ...

This part of the bat mitzvah is often as elaborate as a wedding, complete with music, dancing, food, and meaningful rituals .

These rituals, which commemorate the passage from ... in their communities and to impart important life skills. The rites of ...

5,000-year-old burials in Turkey suggest teens took part in a ritualistic rite of passage, researchers said ... to carry out a very extreme form of ritual.” However, why they were sacrificed ...

Rites of Passage (707-537-1927) announces their Wilderness Quest event for women in July 2025, a transformative nine-day ...

A Passover seder is intended to be an annual rite of passage, as so many religions have in some form, but the menu if almost ...

(MATTHEW PERSCHALL/MULTIMEDIA EDITOR) The spring giveaway has been an annual ritual at Rita’s for years. After some time in the park, parents Mark and Angel Honus brought their children ...