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

• Psychology of religionRelated: Ritual practice links individual attention and emotion with shared religious life.

• SacrednessRelated: Rituals express reverence and maintain relationships with what a tradition treats as sacred.

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

• Carnac stonesRelated: Ritual is one proposed context for the monuments, but direct evidence is limited.

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

• Flood mythRelated: Some flood narratives connect survival and renewal to acts of worship or ritual obligation.

• Sergei ParajanovRelated: Ceremonial gestures organize scenes and give them meaning beyond individual psychology.

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

• Youth subcultureRelated: Concerts, gatherings, and other repeated practices can reinforce group belonging.

• Crystal healingRelated: Selecting and arranging stones can give crystal healing a meaningful ritual structure.

• DyingRelated: Rituals often give families and communities shared ways to accompany dying.

• History of gamesCompared with: Some ancient game artifacts are difficult to distinguish from ritual objects.

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

• Johan HuizingaRelated: Huizinga connected play’s formal boundaries with the patterned character of ritual.

• Origin mythRelated: Ritual retellings can renew the meanings of a community’s origin story.

• Parody religionRelated: Repeated mock rites can make a satirical movement feel like a lived religious community.

• TianxiaRelated: Ritual offered a means to enact hierarchy and shared order within the imagined realm.

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

• Alligator pepperRelated: The seeds may be presented or used within ceremonial practices.

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

• Ethnic religionRelated: Shared rituals transmit communal religious traditions across generations.

• Fred RogersRelated: The familiar sweater, song, and shoe change gave episodes a reassuring, predictable structure.

• Game (play)Compared with: Rituals can resemble games in structure while serving social or sacred purposes.

• 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.

• Nontheistic religionRelated: Shared rites can sustain a religious tradition without worship of a supreme deity.

• Spiritual practiceRelated: Repeated ritual actions make spiritual commitments tangible and memorable.

• Bantu religionRelated: Rituals express relationships with ancestors, spiritual forces, communities, and sacred places.

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

• Clinical vampirismRelated: Case descriptions often emphasize patterned preparations and repeated acts.

• Culture (social anthropology)Related: Rituals enact shared meanings through repeated, recognizable practices.

• Evolutionary origin of religionRelated: Repeated ritual actions can coordinate groups and stabilize shared religious commitments.

• Folk healerRelated: Ritual can structure treatment and communicate care, identity, and shared expectations.

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

• Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the AmericasRelated: Some narratives are embedded in ceremonies rather than circulated as detached stories.

• 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.

• Sexual ritualNarrower topic: Sexual ritual combines ritual form with sexual activity.

• Spiritual naturalismRelated: Naturalistic rituals can mark transitions and express shared values without invoking supernatural agents.

• Thumb warNarrower topic: The clasp, chant, and count give an improvised match a miniature structure.

• TotemRelated: Ceremonies can renew or enact relationships between a group and its totem.

• Viennese ActionismRelated: Many actions borrowed ceremonial structures while turning their solemnity toward transgression.

• War danceNarrower topic: War dances are ritualized performances rather than simply movements performed before combat.