Crafting Secular Ritual (Paperback)

Jeltje Gordon-Lennox

ISBN 10: 178592088X / ISBN 13: 9781785920882

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2016

About this Item

Paperback. Answering the call for new rituals in our secular age, this book recognises the essential importance of rituals to the psychological, physical and spiritual health of individuals, families, organisations, and society as a whole. The book examines and explains the history, function and place of emerging rituals in different cultures, as well as providing practical guidance for creating your own secular rituals. The author includes examples, risk factors and checklists for the stages of planning new rituals for life events such as birth, marriage, and death, as well as for public occasions such as graduation and protest marches. Addressing the origins, history and function of rituals, this book looks at how we can create non-religious rituals to mark important life stages and events. The book offers readers the tools, tempered and tested by the author, to craft their own meaningful rituals for life events such as weddings, births and deaths. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crafting Secular Ritual (Paperback)
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178592088X
• ISBN 13: 9781785920882
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Answering the call for new rituals in our secular age, this book recognises the essential importance of rituals to the psychological, physical and spiritual health of individuals, families, organisations, and society as a whole. The book examines and explains the history, function and place of emerging rituals in different cultures, as well as providing practical guidance for creating your own secular rituals. The author includes examples, risk factors and checklists for the stages of planning new rituals for life events such as birth, marriage, and death, as well as for public occasions such as graduation and protest marches.

About the Author

Jeltje Gordon-Lennox is an author of books in English and French about ritual studies theory and the role of the senses in the contemporary practice of secular ritual. She is also a psychotherapist with expertise in the field of world religions. In 2002, she founded the Ashoka(.ch) Association, where she trains secular celebrants in the craft of secular ritualization.

Jeltje lives in Switzerland with her husband, a professional jazz musician, and their two children. She enjoys music, theatre, modern art, reading fiction, hiking and k-dramas.