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• Manners and customs
• Mysteries, Religious
• Ritual

• Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
• Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, Central
• Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, Southern
• Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, West
• Rites and ceremonies -- Algeria
• Rites and ceremonies -- Asia
• Rites and ceremonies -- Athens
• Rites and ceremonies -- Austria
• Rites and ceremonies -- Belarus
• Rites and ceremonies -- Benin
• Rites and ceremonies -- British Columbia
• Rites and ceremonies -- Byzantine Empire
• Rites and ceremonies -- China
• Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses
• Rites and ceremonies -- Controversial literature
• Rites and ceremonies -- Czech Republic
• Rites and ceremonies -- Denmark
• Rites and ceremonies -- Dictionaries
• Rites and ceremonies -- Early works to 1800
• Rites and ceremonies -- Economic aspects
• Rites and ceremonies -- Egypt
• Rites and ceremonies -- Encyclopedias
• Rites and ceremonies -- England
• Rites and ceremonies -- Europe
• Rites and ceremonies -- Europe, Eastern
• Rites and ceremonies -- Europe, Western
• Rites and ceremonies -- Fiction
• Rites and ceremonies -- France
• Rites and ceremonies -- French Polynesia
• Rites and ceremonies -- Germany
• Rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain
• Rites and ceremonies -- Greece
• Rites and ceremonies -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Rites and ceremonies -- History
• Rites and ceremonies -- India
• Rites and ceremonies -- Indonesia
• Rites and ceremonies -- Iraq
• Rites and ceremonies -- Italy
• Rites and ceremonies -- Japan
• Rites and ceremonies -- Jerusalem
• Rites and ceremonies -- Korea
• Rites and ceremonies -- Law and legislation
• Rites and ceremonies -- Malay Peninsula
• Rites and ceremonies -- Mexico
• Rites and ceremonies -- Middle East
• Rites and ceremonies -- Morocco
• Rites and ceremonies -- North America
• Rites and ceremonies -- Norway
• Rites and ceremonies -- Nova Scotia
• Rites and ceremonies -- Orthodox Eastern Church
• Rites and ceremonies -- Papua New Guinea
• Rites and ceremonies -- Philippines
• Rites and ceremonies -- Poland
• Rites and ceremonies -- Québec (Province)
• Rites and ceremonies -- Rome
• Rites and ceremonies -- Russia
• Rites and ceremonies -- Russia (Federation)
• Rites and ceremonies -- Scotland
• Rites and ceremonies -- Serbia
• Rites and ceremonies -- Soviet Union
• Rites and ceremonies -- Spain
• Rites and ceremonies -- Sri Lanka
• Rites and ceremonies -- Sweden
• Rites and ceremonies -- Taiwan
• Rites and ceremonies -- Thailand
• Rites and ceremonies -- Turkey
• Rites and ceremonies -- Vietnam
• Academic rites and ceremonies
• Acclamations (Liturgy)
• Adiaphora
• Beatification
• Birth customs
• Buddhism -- Customs and practices
• Canonization
• Ceremonial entries
• Ceremonial exchange
• Ceremonial objects
• Church dedication
• Cornerstone laying
• Coronations
• Exorcism
• Fasts and feasts
• Fetishism
• Foot washing (Rite)
• Funeral customs and rites
• Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Gathering rites
• Hittites -- Rites and ceremonies
• Imposition of hands
• Incantations
• Initiation rites
• Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.)
• Liminality
• Lustrations
• Marriage customs and rites
• Memorial rites and ceremonies
• Mourning customs
• Municipal ceremonial
• Ordination
• Orientation (Religion)
• Planting rites
• Political customs and rites
• Processions
• Processions, Religious
• Puberty rites
• Purity, Ritual
• Rain-making rites
• Rites and ceremonies, Medieval
• Sacramentals
• Sacraments
• Scapegoat
• Secret societies
• Tonsure
• Vedas -- Rites and ceremonies
• Vigils (Liturgy)
• !Kung (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Akan (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Apache Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies
• Bagobo (Philippine people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Balinese (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Bible -- Rites and ceremonies
• Bible. Old Testament -- Rites and ceremonies
• Bishops -- Rites and ceremonies
• Business schools -- Rites and ceremonies
• Catholic Church -- Rites and ceremonies
• Cherokee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Cheyenne Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Chinese -- Indonesia -- Surabaya -- Rites and ceremonies
• Chontal Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Church of England -- Rites and ceremonies
• Collège de Montréal -- Rites and ceremonies
• College buildings -- Rites and ceremonies
• College of Wooster -- Rites and ceremonies
• Dakota Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Rites and ceremonies
• Dayak (Bornean people) -- Borneo -- Rites and ceremonies
• Delaware Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Eagan Schools of Business (Hoboken, N.J.) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Education, Higher -- Rites and ceremonies
• Egyptians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Eskimos -- Rites and ceremonies
• Ewe (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Freemasons -- Rites and ceremonies
• Georgetown University -- Rites and ceremonies
• Golden Rose (Papal award) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Great Britain -- Rites and ceremonies
• Gros Ventre Indians (Mont.) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Haida Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Haudenosaunee -- Rites and ceremonies
• Hawaiians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Hidatsa Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Hopi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Iatmul (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Iban (Bornean people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Igbo (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Indians of Central America -- Rites and ceremonies
• Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies
• Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
• Indians of South America -- Rites and ceremonies
• Indigenous peoples -- Great Plains -- Rites and ceremonies
• Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Rites and ceremonies
• Inuit -- Rites and ceremonies
• Iroquois Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Jalisco (Mexico : State) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Jamilaraay (Australian people -- Rites and ceremonies
• Judaism -- Rites and ceremonies
• Juniata College (Huntingdon, Pa.) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Kayabi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Korea -- Rites and ceremonies
• Kurnai (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Lombard College -- Rites and ceremonies
• Mahican Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Mandan Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
• Massim (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies
• Menominee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Milan (Italy) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Miwok Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Munduruku (South American people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Munduruku Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Munsee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Nahuas -- Rites and ceremonies
• Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). College of Liberal Arts -- Rites and ceremonies
• Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Music -- Rites and ceremonies
• Oglala -- Rites and ceremonies
• Oglala Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Ojibwa Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Osage Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, Calif.) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Pacific Theological Seminary (Berkeley, Calif.) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Parsees -- Rites and ceremonies
• Passover -- Rites and ceremonies
• Pawnee -- Rites and ceremonies
• Pawnee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Presbyterianism -- Rites and ceremonies
• Pueblo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Pumi (Chinese people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Roanoke College -- Rites and ceremonies
• S. Apollinare nuovo (Basilica : Ravenna, Italy) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Sakalava (Malagasy people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Samo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Samoans -- Rites and ceremonies
• San (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Seneca Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Siksika Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Sons of Temperance of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
• St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Sundanese (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Swarthmore College -- Rites and ceremonies
• Tepecano Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Tewa -- Rites and ceremonies
• Tewa Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Thailand -- Rites and ceremonies
• Theological seminaries -- Rites and ceremonies
• Turks -- Azerbaijan -- Rites and ceremonies
• Universities and colleges -- Rites and ceremonies
• University of Wisconsin -- Madison -- Rites and ceremonies
• Ute Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Visitations, Ecclesiastical -- Rites and ceremonies
• Winnebago Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Y.M.C.A. of the University of Illinois -- Rites and ceremonies
• Yaqui Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
• Yoruba (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Young Men's Christian Association (Washington, D.C.) -- Education (Higher) -- Rites and ceremonies
• Zuni Indians -- Rites and ceremonies

• Ceremonies

• 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
• Myth, Ritual and Religion (2 volumes), by Andrew Lang
  • Volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • Volume 2: Gutenberg text
• The Sraddha : the keystone of the Brahminical, Buddhistic, and Arian religions, as illustrative of the dogma and duty of adoption among the princes and people of India (D. Bryce, 1857), by David Urquhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Duk-Duks : primitive and historic types of citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 1929), by Elizabeth Anne Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effect of social forces upon religious rites and ceremonies ... (Philadelphia, 1924), by Richard Elijah Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritual and belief; studies in the history of religion. (London : Williams and Norgate, 1914., 1914), by Edwin Sidney Hartland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bear ceremonialism in the northern hemisphere (Philadelphia, 1926), by A. Irving Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. (London, 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Croyances, rites, institutions. (Geuthner, 1911), by Eugène Goblet d'Alviella (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Myth, ritual and religion (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of religion : an anthropological study (Putnam, 1905), by Lewis Richard Farnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study in the psychology of ritualism ... (The University of Chicago press, 1910), by Frederick Goodrich Henke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Buddhist praying-wheel : a collection of material bearing upon the symbolism of the wheel and circular movements in custom and religious ritual (Macmillan, 1896), by William Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legend of Perseus : a study of tradition in story, custom and belief (D. Nutt, 1894), by Edwin Sidney Hartland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecclesiological essays. (A. Moring, 1905), by J. Wickham Legg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on ceremonial (De La More Press, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collections of objects of religious ceremonial in the United States National Museum (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1929), by Immanuel M. Casanowicz and Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myths and ceremonies of the Mandan and Hidatsa. Second series. (Vassar College, 1932), by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the history of religions (Harvard university press, 1924), by Crawford Howell Toy (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. On the basis of the celebrated and splendid work of Bernard Picart. To which is added. A brief view of minor sects, which exist at the present day ... (Hutchison and Dwier, 1834), by Charles A. Goodrich, Colin Mackenzie, and Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of all religions; and the religious ceremonies of all nations at the present day. In four parts ... Including an abridgment of "The idolatry of the Hindoos; their history, literature, religion, manners and customs, &c. (O. D. Cooke & sons, 1824), by Thomas Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names (Trübner, 1872), by Thomas Inman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myth, ritual and religion (Longmans, Green, 1887), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myth, ritual and religion (Longmans, Green, and co., 1901), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rozmowy polskie lacińskim jȩzykim przeplatane (Czasu, 1889), by Wit Korczweski (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity (The Clarendon press, 1899), by Francis Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tokugawa seido shiryō (Ono Kiyoshi :, 1927), by Kiyoshi Ono (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Du duan. (直隷書局, 1921), by Yong Cai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nan sheng gong yu lu. (Zhejiang shu ju, 1875), by Zhangju Liang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecology and the sacred : engaging the anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport (University of Michigan Press, 2001), by Michael Lambek, Ellen Messer, and Roy A. Rappaport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myth, ritual and religion (Longmans, Green, and co., 1906), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• War ceremony and peace ceremony of the Osage Indians (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1939), by Francis La Flesche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myth, ritual, and religion. (AMS Press, 1968), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Foundation rites with some kindred ceremonies; a contribution to the study of beliefs, customs, and legends connected with buildings, locations, landmarks, etc., etc. (The Abbey press, 1901), by Lewis Dayton Burdick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les rites de passage; étude systématique des rites de la porte et du seuil, de l'hospitalité, de l'adoption, de la grossesse et de l'accouchement, de la naissance, de l'enfance, de la puberté, de l'initiation, de l'ordination, du couronnement des fiançailles et du mariage, des funérailles, des saisons, etc. (Éditions A. & J. Picard, 1981), by Arnold van Gennep (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Loan exhibition, objects used in religious ceremonies and charms and implements for divination (The University, 1892), by University of Pennsylvania. Department of Archaeology and Stewart Culin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of religious ceremonial (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Walter Howard Frere (page images at HathiTrust)
• I Santi nel misfero della Redenzione (Pietro Marietti Editore, 1923), by Ildefonso Schuster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Till fragan om uppkomsten af sakramentala måltider med särskild hänsyn till totemismen ... (Almqvist & Wiksells boktryekeri-a.-b., 1908), by Edgar Hans Casimir Reuterskiöld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Entstehung der Speisesakramente (C. Winter, 1912), by Edgar Hans Casimir Reuterskiöld and Hans Sperber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Naojote ceremony of the Parsees ([Printed at the "Fort printing press by J.V. Minezes], 1914), by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Introduction to the history of religions (Harvard University Press, 1913), by Crawford Howell Toy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hone's Popular works and everlasting calender (William Tegg and Co., 85, Queen Street, Cheapside, 1850), by William Hone and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Custom and myth. (Longmans, Green and co., 1884), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legend of Perseus; a study of tradition in story, custom and belief. (AMS Press, 1972), by Edwin Sidney Hartland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient rites and ceremonies (Senate, 1996), by Grace A. Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Myth, ritual and religion (and co, 1906), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kingship (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1927), by A. M. Hocart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Primitive ritual and belief; an anthropological essay (Methuen & co., ltd., 1917), by E. O. James and R. R. Marett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The principles of religious ceremonial. (Longmans, Green, 1906), by Walter Howard Frere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the history of religions (Ginn, 1913), by Crawford Howell Toy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sarye pʻyŏllam. 8-kwŏn (1844), by Chae Yi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceremonial for the use of the Catholic churches in the United States of America. (The Baltimore Pub. Co., 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Christianity exemplified in the private, domestic, social, and civil life of the primitive Christians, and in the original institutions, offices, ordinances, and rites of the church. (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Décrets, arrètés et dispositions, diverses, concernant les honneurs, rangs, preséséances, tant civils que militaires. (Demanet, 1843), by Pierre Auguste Florente Gérard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The threshold covenant; or, The beginning of religious rites (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896), by H. Clay Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of religion (C.A. Pearson Ltd., 1902), by Olive Walton Vivian and Herbert Vivian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coronation rites (University Press, 1915), by Reginald Maxwell Woolley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Both sides of religious ceremonies: a monthly periodical, devoted to the investigation of every variety of rituals in religion. (Looker & Graham, printers, 1839), by Robert Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religions and religious ceremonies of all nations : accurately, impartially, and fully described; including Christians, Mohammedans, Jews, Brahmins, and Pagans, of all sects and denominations (Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1835), by Joseph Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catechistical doctrine, A pattern of. (J. H. Parker, 1846), by Lancelot Andrewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blood covenant; a primitive rite and its bearing on Scripture (George Redway, 1887), by H. Clay Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religions and religious ceremonies of all nations (Sir R. Phillips and co., 1821), by Joseph Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chŭlăkantamaṅgala; or, The tonsure ceremony as performed in Siam. ([Printed at the Bangkok Times Office], 1895), by G. E. Gerini (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of antient ceremonies : containing an account of their rise and growth, their first entrance into the church, and their gradual advancement to superstition therein (London, 1669), by Jonas Porrée, John Wilson, and Thomas Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity (Clarendon Press, 1907), by Francis Paget (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations (Printed for the author, 1868), by Thomas Inman (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Capella regis utriusque Siciliae et aliorum principum (ex typographia Raymundiana, 1772), by Giuseppe Maria Carafa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeine kritische geschichte der religionen (Helwing, 1806), by C. Meiners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du li tong kao : yi bai er shi juan (s.n.], 1696), by Qianxue Xu and Chinese Rare Books Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• De cerimoniis aulae Byzantinae libri duo (E. Weber, 1829), by Emperor of the East Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Johann Jacob Reiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iubileum (apud Rusand, Ecclesiasticum Bibliopolam, 1826), by Jacques Molroguier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the influence of religion upon the health and physical welfare of mankind (Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1835), by Amariah Brigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of religion: an anthropological study (Williams & Norgate;, 1905), by Lewis Richard Farnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dedication of the Teacher's Manse, Alberta (Stevens County Museum and Historical Society, Morris, MN; http://www.stevenshistorymuseum.com, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Installation ceremony for degree temples, I.O. of G.T. (Daily Post Steam Printing Establishment, 1868), by International Order of Good Templars and International Order of Grand Templars (page images at HathiTrust)
• De thvris in vet. Christ. sacris vsv (Ex officina Stopffelia, 1752), by Georg Heinrich Martini and Karl Friedrich Moeckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Christianity exemplified in the private, domestic, social, and civil life of the primitive Christians : and in the original institutions, offices, ordinances, and rites of the church (Lippincott, Grambo, 1852), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• De rebus sacris et artibus veterum Tarentinorum. (apud H. Büschler, 1836), by Rudolf Lorentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• De rebus sacris et artibus veterum Tarentinorum (Hübneri et Heickmanni, 1836), by Rudolph Lorentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cérémonies religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. (Rollin Fils, 1741), by M. l'abbé Banier, Jean-Frédéric Bernard, fils Rollin, Bernard Picart, and Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the history of religions. (AMS Press, 1970), by Crawford Howell Toy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Myth, ritual and religion (Longmans, Green, and co., 1913), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The principles of religious ceremonial (Longmans, Green, 1912), by W. H. Frere (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world : together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses equally instructive and entertaining (Printed by W. Jackson, for Claude Du Bosc, 1733), by Jean Venant Bouchet, Abraham Roger, Henry Lord, Richard Simon, Leone Modena, Johann Buxtorf, Johann Buxtorf, Claude Du Bosc, and Bernard Picard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritualism dethroned and the true church found : or, The divine life in all the Christian ages most revealed in those churches and "Martyrs of Jesus" that have witnessed against a ceremonial and sacramental law ... (Henry Longstreth, 1875), by William B. Orvis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abolished rites : or, Spiritual, not ceremonial worship (The Christian Union, 1909), by Amos H. Gottschall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Khlōng phrarātchaphithī Thawāthotsamāt (Hō̜samut hǣng Čhāt, 1920), by Prince Bamrāppō̜rapak and Čhaochō̜m Pǣn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Polydori Vergilii De inventotibus rerum prior editio : tribus primis coplexa libris, ab ipso autore recognita, & locupletata, vbi visa est materia sic poscere ; Cvi editioni adglvtinavit Instituta omnia nostre Christianae religionis alia rúmvegentíu, ac eoru primordia vndecuque diligenter quaesita, quae quinque posterioribus libris continentur ; Adiectus est & index, omnia quae in hoc opere tractantur, serie literaria edocens. (Ex officina Roberti Stephani, 1528), by Polydore Vergil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultulŭ păgánŭ si Crestinŭ ... Sĕrbătorile si datinele romane vechie (Bucuresci, 1884), by Ath. M. Marienescu and Academia romana (Bukharest) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explication de divers monumens singuliers, qui ont rapport a la religion des plus anciens peuples. Avec l'examen de la derniere edition des ouvrages de S. Jerôme, & un traité sur l'astrologie judiciaire. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. (Lambert, 1739), by Jacques Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• De profanis et sacris veteribvs ritibvs (Ex typographia Andreę Phaei, 1644), by Giovanni Battista Casali and Andrea Fei (page images at HathiTrust)
• The debates on ritualism in the Provincial Synod of the Church of England and Ireland held at Montreal September 9th and following 9 days, 1868 : also, the sermon of the Rev. Canon Balch, D. D., preached in the Cathedral, on the occasion of the death of the most Rev. Lord Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan, and a report of the funeral obsequies, &c, &c, (s.n.], 1868), by Quebec) Church of England. Province of Canada. Provincial Synod (4th : 1868 : Montreal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrement in Canada (Protestant Book Society, 1891), by Walter Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau philosophique des erreurs & des faiblesses dans lesquelles les superstitions, tant anciennes que modernes, ont précipité les hommes de la plupart des nations de la terre (Chez Laporte, libraire ..., 1783) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human ordure and human urine in rites of a religious or semi-religious character among various nations (Washington, D.C., 1888), by John Gregory Bourke and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on ceremonial (De La Mare Press, 1904), by Edmund Bishop, J. Wickham Legg, Percy Dearmer, and E. G. Cuthbert F. Atchley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catholic ceremonies and explanation of the ecclesiastical year. (Benziger Bros., 1896), by Alfred Durand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daturas of the old world and new : an account of their narcotic properties and their use in oracular and initiatory ceremonies (Washington, 1922), by William Edwin Safford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vademecum liturgicum continens expositionem rubricarum Missalis Romani editionis typicae novissimis S.R.C. decretis illustratam necnon diversas regulas liturgicas orationes item indulgentiis ditatis ac denique Compendium Ritualis Romani. (Budapestini, 1892), by Theopilus J. Klinda and Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• On certain personages who appear in a Tusayan ceremony. (Washington, 1894), by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Hemenway southwestern archaeological expedition, and Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition (1886-1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cérémonies des peuples du monde (Chez J.F. Bernard, 1723), by Antoine Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière, Jean-Frédéric Bernard, and Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious ceremonies and customs of every nation of the world (J. Wiliams, 1828), by Robert Huish and Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Xinjiang xiao zheng (Ju zhen fang Song yin shu ju, 1918), by Shunan Wang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastic policy. (Clarendon Press, 1907), by Francis Paget (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prakāt phrarātchaphithī samrap phrarātchaphithī kānchō̜n (Rō̜ngphim Thai, 1916), by Prince Sommotʻamō̜nphan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• S.A.I. le grand-duc Boris de Russie aux fêtes du Siam pour le couronnement du roi. (Libr. Plon, Plon-Nourrit et Cie, 1914), by Ivan de Schaeck and Grand Duke of Russia Boris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Qin ding li bu ze li : [87 juan] (s.n.], 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meetings and greetings : the salutations, obeisances and courtesies of nations ; with notes on titles, dignities, etc. (William Tegg, 1877), by William Tegg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceremonial institutions : being Part IV. of the Principles of sociology. ([publisher not identified], 1880), by Herbert Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zot hụkạt ha-Torah : kịtsur kạvanot ha-Ari ... (Bi-defus Shemuʼel Pinhạs Shtịller, 1860), by Abraham ben Hezekiah Hạzkuni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coronation thrones and other royal furniture (Morris & Company, 1911), by England) Morris & Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Translations : forms of ceremonial, &c., on the death of the dowager queen, and of the Emperor Taoukwong ; also an account of the celebrated porcelain tower of Nanking (Longman, 1852), by W. Raymond Gingell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritual and belief ; studies in the history of religion (Williams and Norgate, 1914), by Edwin Sidney Hartland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observance of feast days by Gourgas Chapter of Rose Croix, Valley of Chicago, Orient of Illinois, Thursday evening, April 10th, 1879. (Chicago Legal News Company, 1879), by Ill. Scottish Rite. Gourgas Chapter of Rose Croix Freemasons. Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religiösa föreställningar och bruk under äldre tider. (Schmidt, 1909), by Carl Wibling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kirchenverfassung, lehre und ritus des katholicismus und protestantismus. (K.G. Wagner, 1828), by Henrik Nicolai Clausen and Georg Fries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera intorno alle cirimonie, e complimenti degli antichi romani (Nella stamperia di Francescantonio Marchesani librajo, 1750), by Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Geschichte des heidnischen Ritus. (Königl. Akademie der Wissenchaften, 1896), by Karl Weinhold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred dance in Christendom. (J.M. Watkins, 1926), by G. R. S. Mead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Ritual; psychoanalytische Studien (Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1928), by Theodor Reik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il pellegrino istruito nella visite delle quattro basiliche per l'acquisto del santo giubbileo dell'anno santo 1825 : ed una esatta notizia del medesimo, con l'orazioni necessarie per la suddetta visita, e il modo di salire le scale sante. (In Roma : Nella stamperia della Ved. Cannetti, 1824., 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo sopra le antiche saltazioni (s.n., in the 1760s), by Pierantonio Gaetani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roma triumphans seu Actus inaugurationum & coronationum pontificum Romanorum & in spetie. Innocentii X. pont. max. brevis descriptio (Typis et sumptibus Johannis Arcerii., 1656), by Laurentius Gunnari Banck and Johannes Arcerius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection des décrets authentiques des sacrées congrégations romaines. (Paris, 1868), by Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Action populaire: le régime légal du culte catholique; étude théorique et pratique. (Reims, 1911), by Lucien Crouzil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai de folklore marocain (Libr. orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1926), by doctoresse Legey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names, or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings and hierarchs (Trubner and Co., 1872), by Thomas Inman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the history of religions (Boston : Ginn, [1913], 1913), by Crawford Howell Toy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacraments and society; a study of the origin and value of rites in religion (Boston : R. Badger, [1924], 1924), by Allan Worthington Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sarye chŏryak ([Place of publication not identified], 1889), by Han-gi To (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kerk-zeeden en de gewoonten, die huiden in gebruik zyn onder de Jooden. (D. van den Dalen; boekverkooper, by de Beurs, 1693), by Leone Modena, A. Godart, and Richard Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tikụn seʻudah (Hirts ha-levị Rofe vẹ-hạtano Kạśman, 1756), by Nathan Nata Hannover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Christianity exemplified in the private, domestic, social, and civil life of the primitive Christians : and in the original institutions, offices, ordinances, and rites of the church (Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1875., 1875), by Lyman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paśvālambhamīmāmsā (Ānandaśramamudraṇālaya, 1923), by Vāmanaśāstrī Kiñjavaḍekara and Kāśīnāthaśāstrī Āgāśe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Abudarham : meʼir ʻinyene holkhe be-ishon họshekh... sefer asher yevaʼer ha-perush vẹ-gam dinim bo keluim ([h.̣ mo. l.], 1818), by David ben Joseph Abudarham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Thot Kathin-Feier in Siam. (Oriental-Buchhandlung H. Lafaire K.-G., 1927), by Karl Döhring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bilder aus dem altjüdischen Familienleben, nach Original-Gemälden (H. Keller, 1886), by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim and Leopold Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of religion : An anthropological study, by Lewis Richard Farnell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ritual and belief : Studies in the history of religion, by Edwin Sidney Hartland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The legend of Perseus, Volume 3 (of 3) : Andromeda. Medusa., by Edwin Sidney Hartland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The legend of Perseus, Volume 2 (of 3) : The life-token, by Edwin Sidney Hartland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The legend of Perseus, Volume 1 (of 3) : The supernatural birth, by Edwin Sidney Hartland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Coronation Rites, by Reginald Maxwell Woolley, ed. by J. H. Srawley and Henry Barclay Swete (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rites and Ritual: A Plea for Apostolic Doctrine and Worship, by Philip Freeman, contrib. by Henry Phillpotts (Gutenberg ebook)
• Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV, by Crawford Howell Toy, ed. by Morris Jastrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• A history of antient ceremonies containing an account of their rise and growth, their first entrance into the Church, and their gradual advancement to superstition therein. (London : [s.n.], 1669), by Jonas Porrée, Thomas Douglas, and John Wilson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The strange and prodigious religions, customs and manners of sundry nations containing I. their ridiculous rites and ceremonies in the worship of their several deities, II. the various changes of the Jewish religion ... , III. the rise and growth of Mahometanism ... , IV. the schisms and heresies in the Christian church being an account of ... Adamites, Muggletonians &c. all intermingled with pleasant relations of the fantastical rites both of the ancients and moderns in the celebration of their marriages and solemnizations of their funerals &c / by R.D. (London : Printed for and sold by Hen. Rodes, 1683), by 1632?-1725? R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Some treasure fetched out of rubbish: or, Three short but seasonable treatises: (found in an heap of scattered papers), which Providence hath reserved for their service who desire to be instructed, from the Word of God, concerning the imposition and use of significant ceremonies in the worship of God. viz. I. A discourse upon 1 Cor. 14.40. Let all things be done decently and in order. Tending to search out the truth in this question, viz. Whether it be lawful for church-governours to command indifferent decent things in the administration of God's worship? II. An enquiry, whether the church may not, in the celebration of the Sacrament, use other rites significative than those expressed in the Scripture, or add to them of her own authority? III. Three arguments, syllogistically propounded and prosecuted against the surplice: the Cross in Baptism: and kneeling in the act of receiving the Lord's Supper. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1660), by John Cotton and Robert Nichols (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fourth principle of Christs doctrine vindicated being a brief answer to Mr. H. Danvers book, intituled, A treatise of laying on of hands, plainly evincing the true antiquity and perpetuity of that despised ministration of prayer with imposition of hands for the promise of the spirit ... / by Tho. Grantham. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1674), by Thomas Grantham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great question concerning things indifferent in religious worship. Part 2 (London : [s.n.], 1661), by Edward Bagshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A treatise of laying on of hands with the history thereof, both from the scripture and antiquity : wherein an account is given how it hath been practised in all ages since Christ, the mistakes about it rectified and the sence of Heb. 6.2. cleared / by H. D'Anvers. (London : Printed for Fran. Smith ..., 1674), by Henry Danvers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 2013), ed. by Christian Frevel and Christophe Nihan (JSTOR ebook)

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