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100 1 $aImber-Black, Evan.
245 10 $aRituals for our times :$bcelebrating, healing, and changing our lives and our relationships /$cEvan Imber-Black and Janine Roberts.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperPerennial,$cc1992.
300 $axvii, 331 p. ;$c25 cm.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index.
505 0 $aI. Rituals and Relationships. 1. The Possibilities for Rituals Today. 2. How Rituals Work for Us: The Five Purposes of Rituals. 3. Your Family Heritage: Understanding Ritual Styles -- II. Making Meaningful Rituals. 4. Planning Your Rituals: Preparation, People, Place, Participation, and Presents. 5. How Rituals Make Meaning: Symbols and Symbolic Actions -- III. Rituals Throughout Our Lives. 6. Daily Rituals: Shaping Relationships Day by Day. 7. Birthdays: Remembering Life's Beginnings and Affirming Relationships Across the Years. 8. Anniversaries: Honoring Relationships and Marking Personal Changes. 9. Vacations, Reunions, and Seasonal Events: Making Special Time for Yourself and Your Relationships. 10. Holiday Rituals: Celebrating with Merriment, Memory, and Meaning. 11. Life-Cycle Rituals: Living Life's Changes. 12. Keeping Your Rituals Alive: Where to Go from Here.
520 $aAll 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, we often perform them automatically, without considering their vital roles in our lives. Many individuals feel alienated from the rituals of their childhoods, while others are struggling to create satisfying new traditions that reflect their own present needs and.
520 $aCircumstances. In this timely, groundbreaking book, authors Evan Imber-Black and Janine Roberts show how we can learn to tap the power of rituals to mark transitions, express important values, heal the past, and deepen relationships. From our daily rituals (goodbyes, mealtimes, bedtimes) to family traditions (birthdays, anniversaries) to celebrations (religious, ethnic, national) to life-cycle rituals (for birth or adoption, marriage, and death) to new rites of passage.
520 $a(For divorce, healing, or sobriety), Rituals for Our Times shows how to create meaningful rituals adapted to our individual lives and family structures. Each chapter looks at the special issues and possibilities for nuclear, extended, single-parent, and remarried families, as well as for single adults and couples. The authors also pay particular attention to how changing gender roles are reflected in our rituals, and how revitalized traditions can actually alter the.
520 $aCourse of intimate relationships. Filled with moving first-person stories and practical examples, this book will help all readers enhance the meaning of traditions old and new, reinforcing and celebrating life's many milestones and ties.
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