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The 21 pages that link to Rite of passage, each with the reason it gives.

• RitualBroader topic: This widespread ritual form makes transition and changed status explicit.

• Religious conversionNarrower topic: Baptism and initiation rites can publicly mark a new religious identity.

• Coming-of-age storyRelated: The story may dramatize an individual passage without depicting a formal communal ritual.

• ReligionRelated: Religious ceremonies often give shared form to birth, adulthood, marriage, and death.

• Female genital mutilationRelated: In some communities, cutting has been incorporated into initiation ceremonies.

• InitiationNarrower topic: Initiation is one form of ritualized transition between social statuses.

• LiminalityNarrower topic: Liminality names the transitional phase in van Gennep’s broader pattern.

• Coming-of-ageNarrower topic: Coming-of-age customs are one form of this broader pattern of transition.

• Joseph CampbellRelated: Campbell compared the hero’s departure, initiation, and return with ritual transitions.

• Body modificationRelated: Some communities incorporate bodily alteration into status transitions.

• The Hero with a Thousand FacesRelated: The book interprets heroic ordeals through patterns of separation, transition, and return.

• Adolescent developmentRelated: Such practices make cultural definitions of the transition to adulthood visible.

• Birthday PartyNarrower topic: Some birthday celebrations borrow the structure and symbolism of broader life-stage rituals.

• Victor TurnerNarrower topic: Turner analyzed its separation, transition, and incorporation phases.

• Symbolic anthropologyRelated: Its phases and symbols provide a clear case for tracing how ritual makes social change intelligible.

• Religious ritualBroader topic: These rituals use prescribed stages to make a change in religious or communal standing public.

• Fertility riteCompared with: Both use ritual to mark transformation, but fertility rites seek reproduction or abundance rather than status change.

• Human brandingRelated: In some cultural settings, scarification practices have carried communal or life-stage meanings distinct from punishment.

• Life (human existence)Related: They give shared form to major transitions within an individual life.

• Sexual ritualRelated: Sexual practices can mark transitions such as marriage or adulthood.

• William GoldingBroader topic: This Booker Prize-winning novel began Golding’s maritime trilogy.