New Humanist: Ideas for godless people

Articles by subject: ritual

There will be blood (by Harold Hillman, September/October 2010 )
Butchery is always a messy business, but is religiously inspired ritual slaughter really worse than other methods? Physiologist Harold Hillman dissects the evidence
Rhythm rites (by Crispin Robinson, July/August 2009 )
Crispin Robinson explains why he has become initiated in an Afro-Cuban drumming cult
Slice of life (by Sally Feldman, March/April 2007 )
For some it's barbaric, for others a religious imperative. But why, asks Sally Feldman, is circumcision still the most frequently performed operation in the world?
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