Ronald L. Grimes is co-editor of the Oxford Ritual Studies Series and the author of several books on ritual, most recently The Craft of Ritual Studies. Grimes resides in Waterloo, Ontario, where he is Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. Recently, he has held the following positions: Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at Charles University, Prague in the Czech Republic; Senior Researcher, Senior Lecturer, and ISM Fellow at Yale University; and Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.