Combat training drills are a rite of passage for police recruits nationwide, and an Associated Press investigation finds they ...

Discover unique winter solstice rituals—from a deconstructed Bûche de Noël dessert to a winter solstice pajama party—that ...

A growing network of Catholic sisters in Samburu is introducing an alternative initiation ceremony that is slowly reducing female genital cutting in one of the country's most resistant regions.

How do you pack away baby clothes? It starts as a practical afternoon chore. You pull open the drawers, stack the sleepers in neat little piles, and wonder how a body was ever small enough to fill ...

Some pastors offer circumcision ceremonies as an alternative to older practices involving ancestor worship, misogyny, and ...

Like teenage girls across the Americas, Kassandra Rivas dreamed of having a quinceañera party, the rite of passage for ...

Susan Boynton looks at this, along with bibliophilia, libraries, and the study of medieval liturgy in her new book.

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.