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  2. Ritual - Wikipedia

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    A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. [1] [2] Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized, but not defined, by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance. [3]

  3. Ritualization - Wikipedia

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    Rituals allow group members to experience the power of the group over the self. Additionally, ritualization in the form of punishment for deviance serves as a potent method for curbing deviant behavior in traditional societies. By enforcing moral boundaries, ritual punishment helps to preserve social cohesion and unity within the group.

  4. Myth and ritual - Wikipedia

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    Ritual is secondary: just as technology is an application of science, so ritual is an application of myth—an attempt to produce certain effects, given the supposed nature of the world: "For Tylor, myth functions to explain the world as an end in itself.

  5. Ritual view of communication - Wikipedia

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    The ritual view of communication is a communications theory proposed by James W. Carey, wherein communication–the construction of a symbolic reality–represents, maintains, adapts, and shares the beliefs of a society in time. In short, the ritual view conceives communication as a process that enables and enacts societal transformation.

  6. Liturgy - Wikipedia

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    Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. [1] As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication, or repentance. It forms a basis for establishing a relationship with God.

  7. Theurgy - Wikipedia

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    Theurgy is a series of rituals and operations aimed at recovering the transcendent essence by retracing the divine 'signatures' through the layers of being. [9] Education is important for comprehending the scheme of things as presented by Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras.

  8. Ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Rituals and ceremonies are an essential and basic means. for human beings to give themselves and others. the necessary messages. which enable the individual to stay human. They communicate acceptance, love, a sense of identity, esteem, shared values and beliefs. and shared memorable events. Every ritual contains tender and sacred moments.

  9. Cult (religious practice) - Wikipedia

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    Some degree of recurrence in place and repetition over time of ritual action is necessary for a cult to be enacted, to be practiced. [ 5 ] In the Catholic Church , outward religious practice in cultus is the technical term for Roman Catholic devotions or veneration extended to a particular saint , not to the worship of God.