Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships

by Janine Roberts and Evan Imber-Black

Book Overview

All human cultures across time have created rituals, bringing family members together to celebrate, welcome, honor, or mourn. While contemporary rituals still exist to serve these important functions,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060167149
• ISBN13: 9780060167141
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating read

I rate Evan Imber Black highly, having participated in a professional seminar she presented to. I ordered the book to learn more. I wasn't disappointed by the book in any way. I found it easy to read, thought-provoking, moving, and informative. It is full of illustrative case studies and has questions and exercises for the reader to use at looking at the role of ritual in your life. You can read the book without completing the exercises though. I'm going to keep it as a personal reference book when issues arise for me around ritual.

Explores the importance and value of secular rituals

a review from the author of DREAMING YOUR REAL SELF: A PERSONAL APPROACH TO DREAM INTERPRETATION; and DREAM BACK YOUR LIFE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DREAMS, DAYDREAMS, AND FANTASIES.RITUALS FOR OUR TIMES is a well-written and lucid description of the importance of rituals in our lives, regardless of one's spiritual beliefs. In modern, Western, secular culture, many of us have forgotten the value of marking life passages in ways that speak to our individual needs. Well-organized and well-written, with helpful questions to guide us through planning a ritual and whom to include, RITUALS FOR OUR TIMES brings us back to the power and pleasure of even everyday rituals. Through their suggestions, we learn how we can plan rituals with forethought and conscious choice and without rigidity to old ways that no longer work. With touching stories, authors Imber-Black and Roberts demonstrate the potency of ritual to facilitate growth and resolve conflicts--old and new.