Life Transitions: Introduction

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Notes

Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage, trans. Monika Vizedom and Gabrielle Caffe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), 13.

Herbert Anderson and Edward Foley, Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998), 20.

Peggy Papp, in Onno van der Hart, Rituals in Psychotherapy: Transition and Continuity (New York: Irvington, 1983), vii.

See Evan Imber-Black, Janine Roberts, and Richard Whiting, Rituals in Families and Family Therapy (New York: Norton, 1988); and Evan Imber-Black and Janine Roberts, Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (New York: HarperCollins, 1992).

Imber-Black, Rituals in Families and Family Therapy, 8.

Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

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David A. Hogue

David A. Hogue is professor of pastoral theology and counseling at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He is author of Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past: Story, Ritual, and the Human Brain (Pilgrim Press 2003).