Sacred Rites and Rituals, a forty-five minute film produced by FilmRoos for A&E’s Ancient Mysteries Series helped shape public attitudes toward ritual. These attitudes are now echoed by other media presentations of ritual. I was one of the scholarly consultants for the film and know the process that lies behind the production. I kept…
Consuming Ritual
19 August 2023
Ron Grimes
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Celebrating Aging
Mary Jacobs After her mother passed away, Jeanette Leardi invited female friends to her home for a special gathering. It wasn’t exactly a memorial service; many attendees never knew her mother. Instead, it was a healing ritual for Leardi. The group lit candles, played music and took turns reading favorite poems or…
The Lord & His Woman
12 April 2021
Ron Grimes
apocalypsecreativitydeath, mortality, the deadessays, articlesgender, sexualityhealingimagination, creativitymetaphor, symbolrites of passageviolence
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The Gospel according to C. J. Jung I’ve written a series of articles that transform scholarly articles into the stories they imply. This is an example. No person owns a sacred story, because a story is sacred only if it is the story of Everyperson. Though the story of Lord Yahweh, the Holy Antinomy, sounds…
Ritual4Return
From a letter written by Kevin Bott, founder of Rites4Return: “As I dug into the literature, and then into the literature on rites of passage — from van Gennep to Eliade to Turner to… well… you — I knew that I possessed, in both practical skill and spiritual/emotional calling, the tools to create something real….
Rit Bits: An Unconventional Look at Ritual
A CBC interview about secular and personal ritual.
Interviews about ritual
Below are some interviews about
- rites of passage
- do-it-yourself ritual
- ritual and science.
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