Go ahead -- clink glasses, sing Happy Birthday or even snap a photo for Instagram before you dig in. A new study has found that performing a ritual before eating actually makes the food taste better.

The popular assumption that religiosity and morality are connected is widespread. Presumably, it is based on the inference that belief in a morally interested deity, who knows everything about ...

In our increasingly digital world, live performance still manages to bring us together, away from the keyboard, for a period of time, however brief. Attending a performance is a kind of ritualistic ...

MAKKAH — Most of the Hajj pilgrims vacated the tent city of Mina before sunset on Sunday, the second day of Tashreeq, after performing the ritual of casting stones at three Jamarat, pillars ...

As custodians of ancient wisdom, Egyptian priests explored ritual, science, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality unlike ...