Useful Links


The following links were compiled and shared with us by Ron Grimes -- If you find any problems with the conent or accessibility, please contact me and not Grimes himself.  Thanks.

If you find sites you think should be added, let me know by emailing me the title of the site and the url.
 

Rites of Passage Links


Below is a list of external links on rites of passage. Some of these sites can be emotionally disturbing, morally questionable, or intellectually shoddy. So please do not assume that their appearance here means that I recommend them. The sites are listed for study and research purposes only. If you find links that are either dead, obviously in error, or exploitative, please notify me so I can look at them and decide whether to remove them. Now that domains can be sold, it is quite possible that links will not lead to the same material as they did when I originally listed the link.

General or theoretical works on rites of passage or the life cycle:

Birth and childhood rites:
Initiation rites: Puberty, Becoming an Adult:
Marriage rites:
Death rites:
Experimental and non-traditional rites of passage:
 

On-line Sources

Site for Deeply into the Bone:
http://www.wpr.org/book/010429b.htm

Reshaping rituals:
http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i39/39a02302.htm

Interview on coming-of-age rites for NPR:
http://www.theinfinitemind.com/mind164.htm

Another interview on coming-of-age for WPR:
http://www.wpr.org/book/010429b.htm

Article on teaching Native American religions:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/015.html

Interview on creating new rituals:
http://sunsite.queensu.ca/memorypalace/garden/Grimes02/index01.html

Article on teenage ritual (in response to Deeply into the Bone):
http://www.abstinencedu.com/articles/teenrites.htm