The Rite of Urban Passage

<ul> <li> This book investigates the dynamics of religious rituals as part of urban processes offering a substantial contribution to ritual and urban studies.</li> <li> This book offers an interdisciplinary approach entwining ritual urban and spatial theories.</li> <li> Although the book makes a substantial contribution to Iranian and Shia studies but more importantly it offers a new spatial ritual theory placing ritual studies at the heart of urban studies.</li> <li> This book offers an alternative reading of Shia rituals history: the spatial gerontology of Shi'i rituals.</li></ul>