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Remembrance days and memorials provide people the opportunity to share stories with a community. An expert explains how that can make a difference.
Ritual feasting emerged around the time humans were beginning to farm. It came to play an important role in societal bonding, much as it does today.
Holiday traditions – whether culinary, religious, decorative or musical – help families bond and individuals feel stable and content.
Dishes we consider staples today have little to do with the first feast.
Many in the Western world lack the explicit mourning rituals that help people deal with loss. On Day of the Dead, two scholars describe ancient mourning practices.
For a century, Brazil’s Catholic Church has sent holy statues out to parishioners’ homes. A new study finds that these visits create a local subeconomy, benefitting families and the church.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Affliated Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
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Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
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Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, University of Southern California
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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