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ritualization ritualization
ritualization An evolutionary process in which the form or context of an action is altered because it comes to play a role in social communication. For example, many courtship and greeting ceremonies in animals include ritual food presentation (though the quantities of food may be negligible),... Read more
Ritual Ritual
RitualHistorical usage of the conceptRitual and communicationBIBLIOGRAPHYCitations in the Oxford English Dictionary from the fourteenth century on reveal two distinct trends of common usage for the words rite (ritual), ceremony (ceremonial), and custom (customary). On the one hand, these terms have... Read more
Public Ritual Public Ritual
Public Ritual The study of ritual performed in communal life encompasses the wealth of world history and cosmology. Yet, few linguistic or conceptual categories of analysis address fully the diversity of ritual as an enactment of belief in the divine, inclusive of the mythologies of magic,... Read more
Satanic Ritual Abuse Satanic Ritual Abuse
Satanic Ritual Abuse Satanic ritual abuse is narrowly defined as an assault (either psychological, physical, or sexual) that takes place on an individual as part of a liturgy or ordered pattern incorporated into a ceremony of worship aimed at Satan, the Christian devil. As such, ritual abuse is... Read more
Halakhah Halakhah
HALAKHAH The Jewish religious system indicating the "path" that Jews are to follow. Biblically derived and elaborated upon by oral tradition (especially in the Mishna, from 50 c.e. and Talmud, from 220 c.e.), Halakhah regulates a wide range of personal and communal behavior, from dress... Read more
Ritualism Ritualism
ritualism was a development of the tractarian (‘Oxford’) movement. Its adherents were called ‘high church’ because (like the high‐church movement of an earlier generation) they emphasized the Catholic as distinct from the Protestant elements in Anglicanism, and... Read more
hill of Tara hill of Tara
Tara, hill of (Co. Meath). A sacred site for at least two millennia, going back as far as the Neolithic period, the hilltop shows evidence of many structures. The Neolithic ‘Mound of the Hostages’ was erected c.2000 bc; during the Iron Age, a hill-fort was constructed on the summit,... Read more
Orthodox Eastern Church Orthodox Eastern Church
Orthodox Eastern Church community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe. Their members number over 250 million worldwide. The Orthodox agree doctrinally in accepting as ecumenical the first seven councils (see council, ecumenical ) and in rejecting the... Read more
Shivaree Shivaree
Charivari Charivari was a ritual used by medieval and early modern Europeans to chastise community members who failed to conform to social expectations, especially sexual ones. Examples included a widow who remarried, a wife who beat her husband, or a couple who failed to have children. In... Read more
Santeria Santeria
Santería WORLDVIEW RITUALS AND CEREMONIES CONTEMPORARY ISSUES BIBLIOGRAPHY Santería has long been called an Afro-Cuban religion: This designation highlights the origins of many of its elements and early founders but also obscures the fact that Santer Read more

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