As I stood waiting for the sun to rise over the Great Rift Valley and the climax of Shadrack’s passage to manhood ... regardless of the sex ticked on a birth certificate.

Your daughter is wearing bracelets and earrings you don't recognize or buying expensive gifts for friends. Your son's CD collection has suddenly grown. Or worse, you pick up the phone one day to ...

[Petrson Githaiga, Standard] When Janet Ngotah’s son was born, she wanted him circumcised immediately after birth ... and I agreed to take him to a rite of passage programme.

birth, coming of age, marriage and death. He works alongside people who are going through these universal experiences, to try and reinvent these rites of passage. Grayson explores how to mark and ...

On the seventh day after birth, the child's head is shaved. This is called Aqiqah and is performed as part of the naming ceremony. Many Muslims view Aqiqah as desirable, but some see it as compulsory.

After the death of a loved one, some Hindus perform Shraddha. Offerings are made to family gods and goddesses to help the atman of the deceased to move on. Some Hindus believe the atman remains ...

Birth, Marriage, Death, historian and author Dr. Helen Castor (She-Wolves: England's Early Queens) examines how the people of the Middle Ages handled three of life's great rites of passage birth ...

[Peterson Githaiga, Standard] When Janet Ngotah’s son was born, she wanted him circumcised immediately after birth ... and I agreed to take him to a rite of passage programme.