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In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage, a French term innovated by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de passage, The Rites of Passage. [1] The term is now fully adopted into anthropology as well as into the literature and popular cultures of many modern languages.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, in the last chapter detailing lessons for Grihastha stage of life for a student, describes this rite of passage, in verses 6.4.24 to 6.4.27, as follows, [28] A new born's Namakarana ceremony. The grandmother is whispering the name into the baby's ear, while friends and family watch.
While no scheme of classification of passage rites has been universally accepted, there is a general trend with names being given to distinguishable types and some corresponding examples: [4] a. Purification practices - prepare the individual for communication with the supernatural, or erasing an old status in preparation for a new one.
This category is to list both generic terms and specifically named rites in cultural, religious and other traditions. The main article for this category is Rite of passage . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rites of passage .
In anthropology, liminality (from Latin limen 'a threshold') [1] is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. [2]
A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures.Individual Indigenous cultures have their own names for their rites of passage. "Vision quest" is an English-language umbrella term, and may not always be accurate or used by the cultures in question.
Catholic liturgies are broadly categorized as the Latin liturgical rites of the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic liturgies of the Eastern Catholic Churches.. The Catholic Church understands liturgy not only to mean the celebration of the Holy Mass, but also the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours and the administration of sacraments and many sacramentals.
Li (Confucianism), rites in the Confucian ritual religion; Nusach (Jewish custom), rites of worship in Judaism; Rite of passage, a ceremonious act associated with social transition; Sacrament, rites in Christianity including baptism, communion, and last rites; Samskara (rite of passage), rites of passage in Indic religions and cultures