Rites of passage

Everyone has experienced some “Rites of Passage;” we have all gone through some sort of change or growth in life, whether it was puberty or maybe in athletic competition. There is something ceremonial about growing …

Rites of Passage: Coming-of-age rituals from around the world.

William Golding: Rites of passage. Published by Faber & Faber, 1980. Jacket illustration by Cathie Felstead. First edition.

How to embody your fictional culture through its transition ceremonies.

Rites of Passage is the first book in Golding’s ‘A Sea Trilogy’. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot […]

Of the many responses to my post on what to call people over 60 (or 70, 80 or 90), the three responses repeated here stand out for their expressiveness — or in the case of Morning Edition sports commentator Frank Deford, for just being downright ornery. Or maybe wise. You might be stimulated to add your own.

How does a 21st-century boy reach manhood? In some cultures the rite of passage is clear. In others, not so much.

Sociologists have identified three phases that constitute a proper rite of passage: separation, transition, and re-incorporation.

Jacob’s ladder is the name given to the stairway that appears in the dream of the Biblical Patriarch Jacob.