Deeply into the bone
Subtitle: re-inventing rites of passage
By: Ronald L. Grimes.
Series: Life passages
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies; Life change events -- Religious aspects
Description: "The work of a major scholar who has spent years writing and teaching about ritual, Deeply into the Bone instigates a conversation in which readers can fruitfully reflect on their own experiences of passage.

Covering the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death, each chapter includes first-person stories told by individuals who have undergone rites of passage, accounts of practices from around the world, brief histories of selected ritual traditions, and critical reflections probing popular assumptions about ritual.

The book also explores innovative rites for other important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, becoming seriously ill, divorce and retirement."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-367) and index.