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Death and the maiden : girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology / Ken Dowden.
Dowden, Ken, 1950-Date: 1989- Books
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The history of initiation / in twelve lectures. Comprising a detailed account of the rites and ceremonies, doctrines and discipline, of all the secret and mysterious institutions of the ancient world.
Oliver, George, 1782-1867.Date: 1841- Books
Les rites de passage : étude systématique des rites de la porte et du seuil, de l'hospitalité, de l'adoption, de la grossesse et de l'accouchement, de la naissance, de l'enfance, de la puberté, de l'initiation, de l'ordination, du couronnement des fiançailles et du mariage, des funérailles, des saisons, etc / [Arnold van Gennep].
Gennep, Arnold van, 1873-1957.Date: 1909- Books
Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.
Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-Date: 2015- Books
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The Eleusinian mysteries & rites / by Dudley Wright.
Wright, Dudley, 1868-1949.Date: [1913?]- Books
Beschneidung und Reifezeremonien bei Naturvölkern / von Ad. E. Jensen; mit 11 Kartenskizzen.
Jensen, Adolf E. (Adolf Ellegard), 1899-1965.Date: [1933]- Books
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The northern tribes of central Australia / by Baldwin Spencer ; and F.J. Gillen.
Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929.Date: 1904- Books
Die Initiation / von Kr. Bühler-Oppenheim.
Bühler-Oppenheim, K.Date: 1958- Books
Chisungu : a girls' initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia / Audrey I. Richards ; introduction by Jean La Fontaine.
Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984.Date: 1982- Books
The palm and the Pleiades : initiation and cosmology in northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones.
Hugh-Jones, Stephen, 1945-Date: 1979- Books
Fvnerailles et diuerses manieres d'enseuelir des Rommains, Grecs, et autres nations, tant anciennes que modernes / Descrites par Claude Guichard.
Guichard, Claude, 1545-1607.Date: 1581. Auec. Priuilege- Books
Fvnerailles et diuerses manieres d'enseuelir des Rommains, Grecs, et autres nations, tant anciennes que modernes / Descrites par Claude Guichard.
Guichard, Claude, 1545-1607.Date: 1581. Auec. Priuilege- Books
Sambia sexual culture : essays from the field / Gilbert Herdt.
Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-Date: 1999- Books
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Le vade mecum maçonnique, extrait des statuts, rituels et réglemens de l'ordre au rit écossais; esquisse historique sur la maçonnerie, discours sur l'initiation, poésies, etc. [-Suite du vade mecum ... deuxième degré [-troisième degré].] / [Louis Rétif de la Bretonne].
Rétif de la Bretonne, Louis.Date: 1840-1841]- Pictures
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Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.
Cleaver, Reginald, active 1894.Reference: 20399i- Books
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Bibliotheca ritualis concinnatum opus a Francisco Antonio Zaccaria ... duos in tomos tributum / [Francescantonio Zaccaria].
Zaccaria, Francescantonio, 1714-1795.Date: 1776-1781- Books
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The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
Date: 1733-1739- Pictures
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Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: immersion ceremony at the Holy Well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.
Lanos, Henri.Reference: 20374i- Pictures
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John baptises Christ; two angels watch. Engraving by T. Crüger, ca. 1617, after A. del Sarto.
Sarto, Andrea del, 1486-1530.Date: 1617Reference: 22439i- Pictures
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The presentation of Jesus to Simeon, or to a priest of the Temple. Engraving with stipple after F. Bonsignori.
Francesco, da Zumpano, approximately 1455-approximately 1519.Reference: 22178i- Books
Of water and the spirit : ritual, magic and initiation in the life of an African Shaman / Malidoma Patrice Somé.
Somé, Malidoma Patrice, 1956-Date: 1995- Pictures
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The presentation of Jesus to the priest of the Temple. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Hanfstaengl after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
Veronese, 1528-1588.Reference: 24052iPart of: Vorzüglichsten Gemälde der königlichen Galerie in Dresden.- Pictures
The baptism of Christ; two angels bear witness, the crowd points and the holy spirit descends. Engraving by F. Keller after J.F. Overbeck.
Overbeck, Johann Friedrich, 1789-1869.Reference: 22449i- Books
Rituals of childhood : Jewish acculturation in medieval Europe / Ivan G. Marcus.
Marcus, Ivan G.Date: [1996], ©1996- Pictures
The baptism of Christ. Etching by J. Goupy after S. Rosa.
Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673.Reference: 22447i