Rite of passage

From TheBestLinks.com

da:Rite

A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's social or sexual status.

Rites of passage are often ceremonies surrounding events such as childbirth, menarche or other milestones within puberty, weddings, menopause, and death.

Other rites include:

• Circumcision
• Coming of age
  • Gembuku (元服) among the samurai
  • Prom/Graduation
  • Pederasty
  • Rumspringa among the Amish
  • Russ in Norway
  • Vision quest in some Native American cultures
• Initiation rites
  • Baptism
  • First Communion and First Confession (in Catholicism)
  • Confirmation
  • Bar mitzvah
  • Walkabout
  • Freemasonry rituals
• Armed forces rites:
  • U.S. Marine Crucible
  • U.S. Army Victory Forge

External link

• A list of rites of passage and similar rituals (http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/waymac/Sociology/A%20Term%201/2.%20Culture/Rituals.htm)

Related links

---

Top visited 0 of 0 links

[no links posted yet]

>> place link >>

Discussion

Last posted 0 of 0 messages

[no messages posted yet]

>> post message >>

Watch

You can add this article to your own "watchlist" and receive e-mail notification about all changes in this page.