In Tana Toraja, a mountainous region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, villagers pour massive resources into funeral rituals: lavish ...

The holidays wouldn’t feel nearly as nostalgic without rituals. Maybe you always walk in the local turkey trot before your family preps the big feast. Perhaps you light blue candles instead of white ...

The rules have all changed now. We are no longer bound by societal expectations about our religious devotions. Only decades ago, any American who didn’t belong to a church got a side-eye from the rest ...

A naturalization ceremony continued as planned in Columbus amid the Trump administration's crackdown on naturalizing citizens from certain nations.

Are there things that you do in certain settings, at particular times, that evoke a feeling and remind you of what is important? When I step up to bat in softball, I tap the bat twice just past the ...

The Stoics were big on not getting carried away by thoughts and feelings. The “discipline of assent” is to feel that impulse, ...

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