Routledge Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals and Festivals

Contents include: Agricultural Rituals; Altered States of Consciousness; Ancestor Worship - Africa; Animal Rituals; Asceticism; Australian Aboriginal; Birth Rituals; Blood Rituals; Body and Ritual; Buddhism; Calendrical Rituals; Cannibalism; Catholicism; Chinese New Year; Christmas; Day of the Dead; Death Rituals; Divination Rituals; Diwali; Easter; Fire Walking; Food and Rituals; Gender Rituals; Glossalalia; Greco-Roman; Healing and Rituals; Hinduism; Hopi; Humor and Rituals; Hunting Rituals; Iban; Islam; Jainism; Javanese; Judaism; Magic; Mardi Gras; Marriage Rituals; Matsu; Mbuti; Melanesian; Micronesian; Millennialism; Music; Naming Rituals; Nature Worship; Navan Ceremony; New Year's Celebrations; Newala Ritual; Nuer; Oaths and Ordeals; Orthodoxy; Paganism and Personal Rituals; Pilgrimage; Political Rituals; Polynesian; Possession/Trance; Prayer; Protestantism; Puberty Rites; Purity and Pollution; Ramadan; Rastafarianism; Revitalization Rituals; Rites of Communitas; Rites of Passage; Ritual and Symbol; Ritual as Communication; Ritual as Performance; Ritual of Performance; Ritual Specialists; Rituals of Purity; Sacred Places; Sacrifice; Santeria; Satanic Rituals; Scatological Rituals; Secular Rituals; Shakers; Shamanism; Shintoism; Sikhism; Snake Handling

Frank A. Salamone is a Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. He has conducted fieldwork in a number of settings, including Nigeria, the United States, Venezuela, and East Africa. Salamone has authored over 100 articles and authored, edited, or co-edited more than 15 books.