Examples of rite of passage in the following topics:
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- The rite of passage, still practiced by some Africans today, is a traditional ceremony in which a person enters into a new phase of life.
- Rites of passage in African culture have undergone many changes from pre-colonial to contemporary times.
- The rite of passage is typically a ceremonial event in which a person enters into a new phase of life, such as puberty or marriage.
- Many cultures used scarification to mark a rite of passage such as puberty.
- Define a rite of passage, and describe the examples of scarification and circumcision.
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- The purposes of rituals are varied.
- Rituals of various kinds are a feature of almost all known human societies, past or present.
- They include not only the various worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also the rites of passage of certain societies, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages and funerals, school "rush" traditions and graduations, club meetings, sports events, Halloween parties, veterans parades, Christmas shopping and more.
- For example, nearly all fraternities and sororities have rituals incorporated into their structure, from elaborate and sometimes secret initiation rites, to the formalized structures used to convene a meeting.
- Identify the types of and purposes of rituals in various contexts of society, such as religion or politics
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- A ceremony typically marks a rite of passage in a human life, marking the significance of birth, initiation, puberty or social adulthood (Bar or Bat Mitzvah), graduation, death, burial (funeral), spiritual events (baptism, communion), and weddings.
- In religious art, ceremonies are often depicted as events of communal worship, in which believers gather together to celebrate a particular religious process that accompanies major rites of passage.
- In Ancient Egypt, funereal rites were ritualized in a ceremonial process known as mummification.
- The Opening of the Mouth ceremony, an ancient Egyptian funereal rite, being performed before a tomb.
- Give examples of various kinds of ceremonies, including dancing, burial rites, and festivals.
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- Family is the first agent of socialization.
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- Religion is an important avenue of socialization for many people.
- From ceremonial rites of passage that reinforce the family unit, to power dynamics which reinforce gender roles, religion fosters a shared set of socialized values that are passed on through society.
- Family is an important agent of political socialization.
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- The
Vedic Religion was the historical predecessor of modern Hinduism.
- The Sramanas rejected the
authority of the Brahmins, who were considered the protectors of the sacred
learning found in the Vedas.
- Brahmins
are traditionally responsible for religious rituals in temples, and for reciting
hymns and prayers during rite of passage rituals, such as weddings.
- The
varied Sramana movements arose in the same circles of ancient India that led to
the development of Yogic practices, which include the Hindu philosophy of
following a course of physical and mental discipline in order to attain liberation from
the material world, and a union between the self and a supreme being or principle.
- An image of a Jain monk, one of the practitioners of the varied Sramana traditions.
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- The trip was viewed as an educational rite of passage typically for young men, but sometimes women as well.
- Their popularity created an industry of sorts, and prices rose with the growth of the trend.
- The artist Pompeo Batoni, made a career of painting portraits of English tourists posed among Roman antiquities.
- There are records of over 200 portraits of visiting British patrons standing amidst ruins and great works of art by Batoni.
- A popular souvenir of the Grand Tour was a portrait of the tourist themselves, often painted amidst the architecture, or famous art works of a particular European location.
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- Published in 1972, it is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the United States to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved.
- He asserts that the retention of African culture acted as a form of resistance to enslavement: "All things considered, the...Africans enslaved in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America appear to have survived their traumatic experiences without becoming abjectly docile, infantile or submissive" and "since an overwhelming percentage of nineteenth-century Southern slaves were native Americans, they never underwent this kind of shock [the Middle Passage] and were in a position to construct psychological defenses against total dependency on their masters. "
- As Christian missionaries and slave owners attempted to erase African religious and spiritual beliefs, Blassingame argues that "in the United States, many African religious rites were fused into one—voodoo. " Voodoo priests and conjurers promised slaves that they could make masters kind, harm enemies, ensure love and heal sickness.
- Other religious survivals noted by Blassingame include funeral rites, grave decorating and ritualistic dancing and singing.
- Explain the growth of slave religion in the United States according to Blassingame's argument
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- The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade where millions of enslaved people from Africa were shipped to the New World.
- The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of enslaved people from Africa were shipped to the New World for sale .
- An estimated 15% of the Africans died during the Middle Passage, with mortality rates considerably higher in Africa itself in the process of capturing and transporting indigenous peoples to the ships.
- Historians estimate that the total number of African deaths directly attributable to the Middle Passage voyage is approximately two million.
- Slaves resisted in a variety of ways during the Middle Passage, usually by refusing to eat or committing suicide.
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- By far, most Catholics in the U.S. belong to the Latin Church and the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.
- Rite generally refers to the form of worship "liturgical rite" in a church, community owing to cultural and historical differences as well as differences in practice.
- However, the Vatican II document Orientalium Ecclesiarum "Of the Eastern Churches" acknowledges that these Eastern Catholic communities are "true Churches" and not just rites within the Catholic Church.
- Most of these Churches are of Eastern European and Middle Eastern origin.
- Indeed, for most of the country's history, Catholics have been victims of discrimination and persecution.