LADAKH, India (AP) — One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began a ...

FARGO - The dance hall near the Porcupine River on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation stirred with activity as preparations were made for a ritual that the tribes had last celebrated on the evening ...

Tibetan ritual dancer Losang Samten – who is also an award-winning visual artist and the spiritual director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia (USA) – recently worked with ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Deep into the night, the sound of drums reverberated through the township of Mufakose in Zimbabwe's capital city. Barefoot dancers pulsated to the beat in colorful clothing and ...

Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Special Issue: Ritual Creativity, Emotions and the Body (2014), pp. 51-63 (13 pages) Deep emotions seem inseparable from the construction of efficacy in much ...

The Bible gives us many characterizations of the dance and its importance in Iron Age Israel. Dance in this culture is described as an expression of spontaneous joy. Investigating both the archaeology ...

Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...