The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices [Paperback]

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popularHarry Potter and the Sacred Textpodcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practicesyoga, reading, walking the doginto sacred rituals. This guide to community building and personal growth can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purposea message we need more than ever for our spiritual and emotional well-being in the age of COVID-19.

After half a decade of research and hundreds of conversations with people around the country, I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works, and that the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive.Casper ter Kuile

What do Soul Cycle, gratitude journals, and tech breaks have in common? For ter Kuile they offer rituals that create the foundation for our modern spiritual lives.?

We are in crisis today. Our modern technological society has left too many of usno matter our agesfeeling isolated and bereft of purpose. Previous frameworks for building community and finding meaning no longer support us. Yet ter Kuile reveals a hopeful new message for the spiritual but not religious: we might not be religious, but that doesnt mean we are any less spiritual.??

Instead, we are in the midst of a paradigm shift in which we seek belonging and meaning in secular practices. Today, we find connection in:

• CrossFit and SoulCycle, which offer a sense of belonging rooted in accountability and support much like church groups
• Harry Potterand other beloved books that offer universal lessons?
• Gratitude journals, which have replaced traditional prayer?
• Tech breaks, which provide mindful moments of calm?

InThe Power of Ritual, ter Kuile invites us to deepen these ordinary secular practices as intentional rituals that nurture connection and? wlCÈ