Ritual
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| - | A '''ritual''' is a set of [[action]]s, performed mainly for their [[symbol]]ic value. It may be prescribed by the [[tradition]]s of a [[community]], including a [[religious community]]. The term usually refers to actions which are stylized, excluding actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers. | ||
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| - | The field of ritual studies has seen a number of conflicting definitions of the term. One given by Kyriakidis (2007) is that a ritual is an outsider's or "[[Emic and etic|etic]]" category for a set activity (or set of actions) which to the outsider seems irrational, non-contiguous, or illogical. The term can be used also by the insider or "[[Emic and etic|emic]]" performer as an acknowledgement that this activity can be seen as such by the uninitiated onlooker. | ||
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| - | In [[psychology]], the term ritual is sometimes used in a technical sense for a repetitive behavior systematically used by a person to neutralize or prevent anxiety; it is a symptom of [[obsessive–compulsive disorder]]. | ||
| - | ==Ritual actions== | ||
| - | There are hardly any limits to the kind of actions that may be incorporated into a ritual. The rites of past and present societies have typically involved special gestures and words, recitation of fixed texts, performance of special [[music]], [[singing|songs]] or [[dance]]s, processions, manipulation of certain objects, use of special dresses, consumption of special [[food]], [[drink]], or [[psychoactive drug|drugs]], and much more. Religious rituals have also included [[animal sacrifice]], [[human sacrifice]], and [[ritual suicide]]. Ritual lamentation—song performed with weeping—in many societies was regarded as required to ritually carry the departed soul to a safe afterlife. | ||
| + | A '''ritual''' is a sequence of activities involving [[gesture]]s, words, actions, or revered objects. | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| - | * [[Ceremony]] | + | * [[Behavioral script]] |
| - | * [[Civil religion]] | + | * [[Builders' rites]] |
| - | * [[Habituation]] | + | * [[Chinese ritual mastery traditions]] |
| - | * [[Liturgy]] | + | * {{slink|Confucianism#Rite and centring}} |
| - | * [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder]] | + | * [[Gut (ritual)]] |
| + | * [[Kagura]] | ||
| + | * [[Nabichum]] | ||
| + | * [[Nuo rituals]] | ||
| + | * [[Process art]] | ||
| * [[Processional walkway]] | * [[Processional walkway]] | ||
| - | * [[Religion]] | ||
| - | * [[Rite]] | ||
| - | * [[Collective identity]] | ||
| - | * [[Battle trance]] | ||
| - | * [[Sexual ritual]] | ||
| - | * [[Superstition]] | ||
| - | * [[Myth and ritual]] | ||
| * [[Religious symbolism]] | * [[Religious symbolism]] | ||
| - | * [[Reverence (emotion)]] | + | * [[Ritualism in the Church of England]] |
| + | * [[Symbolic boundaries]] | ||
| + | * [[Dajiao|Taiping Qingjiao]] | ||
| + | * ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' | ||
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"These relics in Greek ritual and faith are very commonly explained as due to Oriental influences, as things borrowed from the dark and bloody superstitions of Asia. But this attempt to save the native Greek character for "blitheness" and humanity must not be pushed too far. It must be remembered that the cruder and wilder sacrifices and legends of Greece were strictly LOCAL; that they were attached to these ancient temples, old altars, barbarous xoana, or wooden idols, and rough fetish stones, in which Pausanias found the most ancient relics of Hellenic theology."--Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) by Andrew Lang |
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A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects.
See also
- Behavioral script
- Builders' rites
- Chinese ritual mastery traditions
- Template:Slink
- Gut (ritual)
- Kagura
- Nabichum
- Nuo rituals
- Process art
- Processional walkway
- Religious symbolism
- Ritualism in the Church of England
- Symbolic boundaries
- Taiping Qingjiao
- The Rite of Spring
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