In November 2023, on a Sunday morning in Embu, central Kenya, a church sanctuary came alive with the sounds of women’s voices singing in harmony and the Nearly half of East African women experience ...

In Benin, mangroves are said to be protected by the Zangbéto. In the Vodun belief, this deity forbids wood cutting, under ...

The Luo Hua Dong Nv ritual involved unmarried women aged 16 to 25 chosen for cave sacrifice The practice symbolized a marriage between humans and deities in Miao communities of Xiangxi Women showing ...

In a tragic and mysterious ancient custom in China, unmarried girls were chosen as brides by a legendary “Cave God” and sent to live in caves, where they would fast to death as a form of sacrifice.

Dutch cosmetics giant Rituals disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers from its "My Rituals" membership database. The company ...

The bride wore an elaborate gold-trimmed red gown. The groom’s embroidered silk outfit was layered with a matching cream coat, sash, and symbolic dagger. His groomsmen wore Western sport coats over ...

This extraordinary memoir by anthropologist Lockhart (Walking the Bowl) follows his efforts to help his friend, Michael Dodd, a former Marine diagnosed with dissociative Continue reading » The Biggest ...

I first heard the popular “Swasthani Vrata Katha” – a devotional text – recited in Sankhu, a village on the outskirts of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, some 25 years ago. The text tells the story, or ...

Youths across Rivers State have been encouraged to leverage digital platforms to project the rich cultural heritage of the Niger Delta to global audience. The call was made at the launch of Wiki Loves ...

"The Bride!" writer/director Gyllenhaal tells IndieWire about using genre tools to create a world that's as much the 1980s as it is the 1930s. The film features cheeky references to Ginger Rogers and ...

With just $13.5 million globally against an $80 million production budget, Maggie Gyllenhaal's film is shaping up to be one of the bigger flops of 2026. For Warner Bros., it ends a streak of nine ...