Jazz guitarist David Gilmore has definitely been around the block. He's played with Wayne Shorter, Trilok Gurtu, Don Byron, Cassandra Wilson, and the brilliant M-Base saxophonist and composer Steve ...

This is a valid question, especially for those of us who did not grow up following the church calendar or keeping many of the traditions of the church. Why start now? There are those who worry that ...

WHAT is the scope, what are the aims and objects, the present influences and probable results, of that great religious movement which is so rapidly gaining ground in England ? Ritualism, as it is ...

In the nineteenth century, the Anglophone world was caught up in a crisis defined by a debate about right ritualization. In this elite squabble, the label "Ritualist" was deployed as an epithet to ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

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While conducting dissertaton research in Nepal, Tracy Fehr was funded as a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertaton Research Abroad fellow. Nepal’s attempt to deliver justice and accountability following ...

Vineet Agarwal’s new book titled Hinduism Beyond Ritualism delves into interesting concepts about Hinduism by drawing from the ancient texts and the Upanishads, and explaining them succinctly. This is ...

BR Ambedkar tersely stated that all civilised or uncivilised religions try to portray two essential features: historicity and provision of psychological comfort (to the banal–episodic hysteria). These ...

A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s civil war. Read from CU expert Tracy Fehr on The Conversation.