Rites and rituals - Ari Haasio, Markku Mattila, Elisa Kannasto

Rituals and Rituals opens the door to the individual and collective rituals and rites of religions, Freemasons, ancient people and modern society. It reflects on the differences and similarities between rite and ritual and custom and routine in an illustrative way and with plenty of examples. What regularly recurring rituals do we have? What do rituals mean to us? What are rituals made of? How do communal rituals survive in a society that is increasingly individualistic?


The authors of the work, PhD Ari Haasio, PhD, docent Markku Mattila and PhD Elisa Kannasto are experienced researchers and popularizers of science who have written both scientific articles and numerous non-fiction books.