During the last twenty years around the world there has been a rapid increase in the number
of people visiting long established religious shrines as well as the creation of new sites by …

We advance understandings of knowledge transfer by showing the central role of symbolic
action, taking the form of ritual, in contexts characterized by worldview differences. Using …

This paper explores the phenomenon of rituals as a contested intersection of religion and
ethnicity and demonstrates how changes in religio-ethnic inclinations of various generations …

British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence
since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface …

Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons behind this are
often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of diverse research, and argues that …

The last decade evidences a proliferation of academic and multimedia sources that identify
and describe 'transformational festivals'; a term denoting the idea an informed and agential …

The Alfta surströmmingsskiva is the largest event celebrating the Swedish specialty of
fermented herring, surströmming. The fish ferments naturally and the smell has been …

In the lexicon of ritual theory, the notion of ritualization bears a heavy load. The concept aims
to account for both the origins and functions of ritual (at both the biological and cultural …

Abstract Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) is an approach that assists the body
in releasing deep muscular patterns of tension originated from stressful and traumatic …

Increasingly, the evolution of artistic and cultural events like festivals evidences a shift from
mere spectatorship to active participation, where attendees are construed as productive …