Sacred Ritual
ch. 5, final review sheet
Terms
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- rituals as sacraments
- an outward and visible sign of an inward, spiritual experience. they are performative, repetitive, and meticulous
- name the "Life-Cycle Rites"
- social puberty, vocational initiation, marriage rites, and funeral rites
- calender/seasonal rituals
- commemorate changes in nature or archetypal historical events
- funeral rites
- transition into a different realm
- scapegoat
- a person or an animal that represents an entire community, and the community is redeemed by the person/animal's sacrificial offering
- vocational initiation
- an elite class initiated into a special religious vocation
- 3 stages of "The Rites of Passage"
- seperation, transition, and reincorporation
- marraige rites
- community participates in ceremony
- social puberty
- initiation into adulthood
- what are "Life-Cycle Rites"
- they asist individuals with critical transitions
- rituals of sacrifice
- a means of propitiation, to make amends, atone, or appease the gods, and the community is redeemed by a scapegoat
- types of sacred rituals
- life-cycle rites, life-crisis rites, calender or seasonal rites