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  • THE RITUAL YEAR 13
    Vol. 13 No. 1 (2024)

    City Rituals 1:

    The rural-urban balance has recently been reversed, with more people now living in urban, rather than in rural environments. Facilitated by the rapid changes in communication, the influence of urban centres is today stronger than ever before. The first volume of City Rituals addresses ritual practices and public events (such as seasonal festivals and traditions, national holidays and commemorations, and religious feasts) that mark the life of urban residents in cities in all corners of the world. The authors highlight their connection with local traditions and history, describe their evolution over time, and draw at¬tention to more recent trends, due to globalization.

    Editor for this issue: Irina Stahl
    Editor-in-chief: Emily Lyle
    Editor for the series: Irina Sedakova

    ISSN 2228-1347 (pdf)
    ISBN (paper) 978-9916-742-41-9

  • The Ritual Year 12: Regulating Customs
    Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021)

    Regulating Customs is the twelfth issue of the ‘The Ritual Year' series. The volume explores a range of regulatory forces that preserve, replace and revive, shape, and influence the practice and structure of calendar customs today. The eleven research articles by scholars from ten countries are based on first-hand field research and examine the age-old tensions between stasis and innovation, stability and change, and the creativity that is on display in even the most ’traditional’ of practices.

    ISSN 2228-1347

    ISBN 978-5-89180-129-5

    Editor-in-chief: Emily Lyle (Scotland)
    Editor for the series: Irina Sedakova (Russia)
    Editor for this issue: Thomas A. McKean (Scotland)

  • The Ritual Year 11: Traditions and Transformation
    Vol. 11 No. 1 (2016)

    The eleventh volume in the series “The Ritual Year” is entitled “Traditions and Transformation”. These keywords define the principal areas explored in the issue—the preservation of archaic rituals and customs and the modifications that they are currently undergoing. The twenty-one articles by scholars from nine countries are based mainly on field research and demonstrate fundamental changes in the attitudes  towards local traditions in their preserved, revived, or invented versions.

    Editor-in-Chief: Emily Lyle
    Editors for This Issue: Guzel Stolyarova, Irina Sedakova, Nina Vlaskina

     

    ISSN 2228-1347
    ISBN 978-5-519-50417-1 (paper)