Phenomenology holds great promise yet underdeveloped potential for ritual studies and liturgical theology. As phenomenology has indeed taken a “theological turn” the contentiousness of such an approach abates, questions remain as to what insights, concepts, language can offer deepen our understanding Christian practices. Specifically with respect rituals initiation, does open new avenues apprec...

In 1953, officials of the Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) Church in Benin City, Nigeria, requested schoolgirls Benin–Edo ethnic origin at local Convent Primary School preparing for baptism to bring their fiancés school as a condition baptism. The demand presentation fiancé was first time such given young teenage girls since establishment RCM City 1923. and affected girls’ relationship with denomin...