RITUAL: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

If you're interested in ritual, you might like to try some of the following:

Mickey Hart         Drumming at the Edge of Magic
                        [by the former drummer for the Grateful Dead]

Karen Brown         Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn
                                 [a first-hand account of voudou here and now]

Mark C. Carnes     Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America
                                 [the Masons and secret societies]

Eric Berne              Games People Play
                                 [classic on interpersonal relationships as games]

David Kertzer         Ritual, Politics, and Power
                                 [the use and misuse of rituals in politics]

Robert Fulghum     From Beginning to End:  The Rituals of Our Lives
                                  [your life is full of ritual, whether you know it or not]

Tom Driver             The Magic of Ritual
                                  [very readable introduction to ritual studies]

Victor Turner         The Ritual Process
                                 [classic discussion of rites of passage]

Walter Pitts            Old Ship of Zion
                                 [African-American ritual]