Hello Reader, Just yesterday I heard about a Japanese Shinto ritual known as Misogi. Shinto consists of traditional Japanese religious practices. I suppose it is the closest equivalent to what we might broadly call chivanhu in Shona society. What caught my attention was not only Misogi itself, but how differently it seems to be understood in the West. Traditionally, Misogi is a purification ritual involving the cleansing of the body, often with cold water. Yet what I heard described, a modern...