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Sound & Spirit found these links as we did word-searches ["baptism", "mikveh", "bath", "water ritual", etc.] and research for the program Water.We thought you might find them interesting too.
Author, artist, editor and essayist Terri Windling's Endicott Studio includes a Reading Room where you will find "essays and musings on folklore, modern magical fiction, and other related topics" including an essay- "Sacred Springs and other Water Lore"- reprinted from Realms of Fantasy.
Katy Jordan, Subject Librarian, Modern Languages & International Studies and Architecture & Civil Engineering at the Library & Learning Centre of the University of Bath, England, has prepared several pages about the Ancient, Holy & Healing Wells of Wiltshire that you may find interesting: Seven Wiltshire Wells and their Folklore and Wells in Depth.
Catholic Answers, Inc. a Roman Catholic evangelical radio ministry has a website with an in-depth library including material on Baptism. Among the writings on baptism is one that has many quotations from Early Christian Church Fathers showing the deep importance they placed on the rite.
In the Jews for Jesus movement site's Library is a section of Essays including an essay "Baptism - Pagan or Jewish?" by Cecil Rosen
The September '96 issue of the on-line version of the "New York's Premiere Jewish Family Magazine" Country Yossi includes a fascinating article about Mikveh lore in the Lubavicher Chasidic community.
Gunnar H. Reichert-Weygold's Pagan Library includes in its a collection of Neo-pagan rituals directions for a Ritual Bath taken to "cleanse Yourself, from the inside and out, of negative energies and prepare your Physical, Mental and Spiritual Self for Circle", i.e. to prepare oneself for Neo-pagan communal worship and ritual.
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