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The 144 pages that link to Ritual, each with the reason it gives.

• Religious conversionNarrower topic: Religious conversion is often enacted or recognized through ritual.

• Religious syncretismNarrower topic: Rituals can preserve and recombine practices even when beliefs are reinterpreted.

• ShamanismNarrower topic: Shamanic spirit work is conducted through culturally prescribed ceremonies.

• Rite of passageNarrower topic: Rites of passage are a specific kind of ritual organized around a change in status.

• Ancestor venerationNarrower topic: Ancestor veneration takes shape through repeated, symbolically ordered actions.

• DivinationNarrower topic: Divinatory procedures gain form and authority through repeated ritual actions.

• LiturgyNarrower topic: Liturgy is a formalized kind of ritual enacted in public worship.

• MagicNarrower topic: Magic often depends on ordered actions, objects, and speech rather than isolated gestures.

• MourningNarrower topic: Many forms of mourning use repeated actions to mark loss and support communal recognition.

• FuneralNarrower topic: Repeated funeral actions give the ceremony structure and shared meaning.

• LiminalityNarrower topic: Rituals often mark and regulate the transitions that produce liminal states.

• MaskNarrower topic: Many ceremonial masks gain meaning through the rituals in which they appear.

• Secret societyNarrower topic: Private ceremonies are one way societies mark membership and transmit shared meaning.

• Laying on of handsNarrower topic: The gesture functions within prescribed religious actions rather than as ordinary touch.

• Religious tourismNarrower topic: Rituals give many religious journeys their purpose, schedule, and repeated practices.

• African traditional religionsNarrower topic: Ritual offers a broad framework for comparing ceremonies without assuming shared doctrines.

• Ceremonial magicNarrower topic: Ceremonial magic is organized around repeated, prescribed ritual actions.

• Book of RitesNarrower topic: The classic treats ritual as a means of shaping individual conduct and public order.

• ExorcismNarrower topic: Exorcism is structured through repeated words, gestures, objects, and roles.

• Victor TurnerNarrower topic: Ritual provided the main setting for Turner’s studies of symbols and transformation.

• Votive offeringNarrower topic: Votive gifts gain meaning through the acts of presenting, placing, or dedicating them.

• Imagined communityNarrower topic: Repeated collective practices can reinforce belonging among people who rarely meet.

• Spirit possessionNarrower topic: Rituals can frame possession, invite it, or guide its resolution.

• Fertility deityNarrower topic: Rituals turn beliefs about fertility into repeated communal practices.

• GreetingNarrower topic: Repeated greeting forms turn an encounter into a socially ordered event.

• Prehistoric religionNarrower topic: Repeated ceremonies are among the practices archaeologists can identify without written accounts.

• PriestNarrower topic: Priestly duties often consist of leading rituals that order communal religious life.

• Religious ritualNarrower topic: Religious rituals belong to the broader family of patterned, meaningful practices.

• The Golden BoughNarrower topic: Frazer compares rites across societies to identify recurring patterns.

• Religious artNarrower topic: Ritual use can determine where an artwork belongs and how it is encountered.

• AltarNarrower topic: Altars gain their purpose through the rites performed at or around them.

• FarewellNarrower topic: Repeated farewell customs turn parting into a recognizable social ritual.

• Fertility riteNarrower topic: Fertility rites use repeated symbolic actions to seek abundance and renewal.

• Modern paganismNarrower topic: Seasonal ceremonies and personal rites give many pagan traditions a recurring structure.

• Mystery religionNarrower topic: Mystery religions conveyed belonging and sacred meaning through prescribed ceremonies.

• Neolithic religionNarrower topic: Ritual can be inferred from repeated behavior without assuming a specific theology.

• Goddess movementNarrower topic: Goddess groups use ritual to embody spiritual ideas rather than treating them only as doctrine.

• Walter BurkertNarrower topic: Burkert treated ritual as a key to interpreting Greek religion and myth.

• Chaos magicNarrower topic: Chaos magic adapts ritual structure while often discarding inherited requirements and fixed meanings.

• Speaking in tonguesNarrower topic: Speaking in tongues can serve as a ritualized form of prayer or communal worship.

• Human sacrificeNarrower topic: Human killing became sacrifice through ritual framing, prescribed acts, and shared meanings.

• Tooth FairyNarrower topic: The repeated tooth-and-gift exchange functions as a small family ritual.

• Betel nut chewingNarrower topic: Chewing or presenting areca may mark ceremonies and transitions in particular communities.

• IbadahNarrower topic: Ibadah includes rituals but also devotional conduct outside formal rites.

• LwaNarrower topic: Vodou ceremonies establish the setting for honoring lwa and seeking their presence.

• CenserNarrower topic: Censer use is often prescribed as part of a larger ritual sequence.

• Folk religionNarrower topic: Repeated ceremonies are one way communities make shared beliefs tangible.

• Ritual warfareNarrower topic: Ritual provides the rules and meanings that distinguish this fighting from unrestricted violence.

• SebibaNarrower topic: Sebiba’s repeated ceremonies give the gathering a recognized form.

• Sex magicNarrower topic: Sex magic gives sexual acts ritual structure rather than treating them as ordinary activity.