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• An Easie and Safe Method for Curing The King's Evil; With Several Observations of Diet, Air, &c. Which May Be of Use and Service to People Afflicted With That Distemper (10th edition; London: A. Collins, 1716), by William Vickers (page images at NIH)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Priestly Usurpation: Its Cause and Consequences (London: Hathcard et al., 1845), by F. Close (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Women Priests? (London: Church Literature Association, 1972), by E. L. Mascall (HTML with commentary at womenpriests.org)

• Searching the Scriptures: Women's Ordination and the Call to Biblical Fidelity, by Samuel Koranteng-Pipim (HTML at greatcontroversy.org)

• The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by Charles D. Benn (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist Ordination Rite of A.D. 711 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by Charles D. Benn (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Character and Work of a Spiritual Watchman Decribed: A Sermon, Delivered at Hinesburgh, February 23, 1791 at the Ordination of the Rev. Reuben Parmerlee (Litchfield, CT: Printed by Collier and Buel., ca. 1792), by Lemuel Haynes (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy (London and New York: Macmillan, 1891), by J. B. Lightfoot (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• The Constitution of the Church of England, Scriptural and Apostolical: A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Manchester, on Sunday the 13th of January, 1856 (1856), by E. Dudley Jackson (PDF transcription with embedded commentary at whtech.com)
• A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Codman to the Pastoral Care of the Second Church of Christ in Dorchester, Dec. 7, 1808 (Boston: J. Belcher, printer, 1808), by William Ellery Channing (multiple formats at Google)
• A Sermon, Preached in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, October 11, 1865, Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church on the Occasion of the Consecration of the Reverend Charles Todd Quintard, M.D., as Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee (Philadelphia: C. T. Adams, 1865), by William Bacon Stevens (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)

• The Woman and the Priest (London: J. Cape, c1922), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Mary G. Steegmann (Gutenberg text)

• The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)
• The Prophet Priest: Four Addresses Delivered at Mildmay Conference, 1895 (London: J. G. Wheeler, ca. 1895), by Andrew Murray, contrib. by J. F. Morton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Royal Priesthood: A Plea for the Restoration of the Priesthood of All Believers in the Churches of God (c1956), by W. Carl Ketcherside (Javascript-dependent HTML at unity-in-diversity.org)

• The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1964), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by Joseph Ward Swain (Gutenberg text)
• Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous Les Peuples du Monde (first editions in multiple languages, with commentary), ed. by Jean-Frédéric Bernard, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images with commentary at UCLA)
• Customs of the World: A Popular Account of the Manners, Rites and Ceremonies of Men and Women in All Countries (2 volumes; London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1913), ed. by Walter Hutchinson, contrib. by Alfred C. Haddon
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I (edition may vary slightly from above): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (edition may vary slightly from above): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology (London: G. Allen and Unwin; New York: Macmillan, c1915), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by Joseph Ward Swain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religious Ceremonies and Customs: or, The Forms of Worship Practised by the Several Nations of the Known World, From the Earliest Records to the Present Time (London: Printed for T. Tegg; et al., 1841), by William Burder, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compilation of Notes and Memoranda Bearing Upon the Use of Human Ordure and Human Urine in Rites of a Religious or Semi-Religious Character Among Various Nations (1888), by John Gregory Bourke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)

• Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)

• Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1897), ed. by William Andrews (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (London: Methuen and Co., 1890), by William Andrews (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die Griechischen Sakralaltertümer; und Das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer (in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1890), by Paul Stengel and Frank Oehmichen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1908), by Jane Ellen Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Grihya Sutras, ed. by Hermann Oldenberg and F. Max Müller
  • Part 1: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Part 2: HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Nabaloi Law and Ritual (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology v15 #3; 1920), by C. R. Moss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Geoffrey S. Sumi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laudes Regiae: A Study in Liturgical Acclamations and Mediaeval Ruler Worship (University of California Publications in History v33; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946), by Ernst H. Kantorowicz, contrib. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of Consecration of a Church or Chappel, and of the Place of Christian Burial (1675), by Lancelot Andrewes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine, and Other Minor Works of Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1846), by Lancelot Andrewes (multiple formats at Google)

• Exorcism: The Removal of Evil Influences, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Danmarks Trylleformler (2 volumes in Danish; Copenhagen and Oslo: Gyldendal, Nordisk Forlag, 1917-1921), by F. Ohrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Festival of the Dead (reprinted as New Materials for the History of Man #1; Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1920), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• At the Back of the Black Man's Mind: or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa (1906), by R. E. Dennett (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Philosophic Basis of Ordinances, by C. H. Forney (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2002), by Holly J. Everett (page images at unt.edu)
• Memorial Customs, Ancient and Modern (New York: M. Shepard Co., 1907)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Burial Service of the Orders of Knighthood as Adopted by the Grand Commandery of Michigan, and Recommended by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States (Detroit: Daily Post Printing Establishment, 1868), by Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Danger of Premature Internment, Proved from Many Remarkable Instances of People Who Have Recovered After Being Laid Out for Dead, and of Others Entombed Alive, for Want of Being Properly Examined Prior to Interment (London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by Joseph Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Danmarks Trylleformler (2 volumes in Danish; Copenhagen and Oslo: Gyldendal, Nordisk Forlag, 1917-1921), by F. Ohrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: or, Moses' Magical Spirit Art, Known as the Wonderful Arts of the Old Wise Hebrews, Taken From the Mosaic Books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the Good of Mankind (English translation of a German book edited by Scheible; one section attributed to Ennemoser; New York, 1880), ed. by J. Scheible, contrib. by Joseph Ennemoser (page images at HathiTrust)

• From the Marriage License Window: An Analysis of the Characteristics of the Various Nationalities (Chicago: John Anderson and Co., 1887), by M. Salmonsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Marriage Rites, Customs, and Ceremonies, of the Nations of the Universe (London: J. Smith, 1822), by Augusta Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by A. E. Crawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of Weddings: A Complete Manual of Good Form in All Matters Connected With the Marriage Ceremony (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by Mrs. Burton Kingsland (page images at HathiTrust)

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