This paper sets out, and provides a preliminary test of, the hypothesis of immigrant rites of passage: that immigrant settlement in Canadian cities is associated with a disproportionate burden of exposure to environmental health hazards. We test this hypothesis with the case of Vancouver, one of Canada’s main immigrant gateways, using neighbourhood socioeconomic and air pollution (total suspend...

By the 1640s, Prayer Book ritual had marked rites of passage in England for over eighty years. It formed a reassuring continuum with older Catholic and gave communality to parish religion. However, puritans disliked its ceremonial elements, which were banned by Parliament 1640s. Anecdotal evidence suggests that parishioners continued demand old-style passage, some clergy offer them. This has le...

Abstract Several recent studies have examined religious biographies, i.e. individual trajectories. However, little research has been conducted on the relevance of single life events in such as rites passage. One rite passage, confirmation training, preserved its popularity Finland despite declining church membership. The aim this study, therefore, was to examine Finnish training biographies. da...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between self-reported dysmenorrhoea and patterns of female initiation rites at menarche among Amazonian indigenous peoples of Vaupés in Colombia. DESIGN A cross-sectional study of all women in seven indigenous communities. Questionnaire administered in local language documented female initiation rites and experience of dysmenorrhoea. Analysis examined...

Based on the long-term field studies and stationary research of sketchbooks notepads demobilized soldiers, notebooks soldiers (mariners), internet forums, personal memories service conversations with informants who had completed their military service, author comes to conclusion that certain phenomena, which are various in kind quality (non-manual hierarchy conscription rites passage, text mate...

Framed within the psychosocial context of the sport ethic and social-approval goal orientation, 10 female and 11 male current collegiate or former high school athletes participated in individual interviews about their hazing experiences. Data analysis resulted in seven lower order themes and two higher order themes. The higher order theme of the general aspects of hazing included types of facto...