For decades, climbing the career ladder came with a familiar set of unwritten rules like enduring low pay, staying late to ...

Writer Michael Pulley recalls the mouth-breathing bullies he encountered in his youth and reflects on some of the same behavior prominent now.

The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar's Shan people enter monastic life for up ...

A man who was allegedly held captive for 20 years by his wicked stepmother has broken his silence and revealed the rite of passage he's now experienced as he attempts to get his life back.

When Ananth Udupa was 7 and growing up in Phoenix, he underwent a Hindu rite of passage for boys of higher castes called an Upanayana. The ceremony, which goes back millennia, in some ways ...

A novitiation, or “Shinbyu,” ceremony is mostly held in March ... the ordination is seen as a rite of passage. In addition to learning the basic tenants of their faith, it serves as a sort ...