About

Ronald L Grimes

Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L2E8

ronaldLgrimes@gmail.com


Areas of Research and Teaching

  • Ritual studies
  • Religion, media, and the performing arts
  • Anthropology of religion
  • Religions of the American Southwest
  • Film, creative nonfiction

Ronald L Grimes is an editor of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series and the author of several books on ritual, including Beginnings in Ritual Studies, Deeply into the Bone, The Craft of Ritual Studies and Endings in Ritual Studies. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religion and Culture at Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, where he taught courses on religion and imagination, storytelling and the sacred, ritual studies, religion and the performing arts, and field research.