Matrimony
Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work
by Stephen Jenkinson
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Pub Date Aug 12 2025 | Archive Date Sep 12 2025
Sounds True Publishing | Sounds True
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Description
A restoration of the village-making power of matrimony, a building of cultural memory, and an examination of meaning-making for our ceremonially adrift time
Public and private rituals are failing this culture. Longtime scholar, storyteller, and ceremonialist Stephen Jenkinson has tracked that failure, along with the personal poverties that have followed, and has set about mending the brokenness from meaning and connection, one wedding ceremony at a time.
“Matrimony is the place where culture leans on love for its portion, its tithe,” explains Jenkinson. “It is the mothering of culture, and ritual is its vehicle, and patrimony its precursor.” Privatizing love, turning matrimony into a social institution barren of all substance, and flattening rituals into benign, generic celebrations of life erodes our skills as citizen witnesses to a troubled time. The way forward, then, is to learn and reclaim our cultural ceremonies and their meaning.
Among the insights that Stephen Jenkinson offers in this thought-provoking work:
• The place of matrimony and patrimony in modern understandings of romance
• The importance of village rites and rituals
• Old understandings of union, marriage, and matrimony rendered new
Through witty stories, insightful history, and meditative questions, Matrimony invites us to examine the significance of matrimony, ritual, ceremony, and cultural articulation—and how to redeem them for future generations.
Marketing Plan
Campaign targeting author's modest but highly engaged email list
Cross-promotion with author’s dedicated peers, including Kimberly Ann Johnson
Promotion to ST social media community of 900K followers and email subscribers
Insights at the Edge podcast promoted via ST email and social media
Amazon AMS campaign, plus Amazon A+ page
National print & digital outreach with a focus on spirituality and mind/body/spirit media
Select podcast outreach, targeting author’s previous appearances and new shows that focus on wellness, spirituality and mind/body/spirit programs
Potential book launch event (s) with tie-in with authors’ speaking schedule
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781649634085 |
PRICE | $21.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 272 |