Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work, is Stephen Jenkinson’s new book about the redemptive power for culture making lying in wait in the tamed confines of the wedding ceremony. As he’s done with money (Money and the Soul’s Desires), dying (Die Wise), elderhood (Come of Age) and pandemics (A Generation’s Worth), in Matrimony Jenkinson finds a living heart in the debris field of contemporary culture, and makes the case that radical hospitality, strangerhood and the old sacraments of trade together make the trail we could follow back into real person making and ceremonial literacy.

About the Author
Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, is a cultural worker, teacher, author, and ceremonialist. He is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, founded in 2010. He has master’s degrees from Harvard University (theology) and the University of Toronto (social work). He’s the author of Come of Age, the award-winning Die Wise, Money and the Soul’s Desires, and Reckoning (with Kimberly Ann Johnson).

Book Details
Cover Design: Rachael Murray
Cover Photo: Nathalie Roy
Publisher: Sounds True
Page Count: 272
Language: English
ISBN Number: 978-1-64963-408-5