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  2. Ritualization - Wikipedia

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    Rituals are symbolic, repetitive, and often prescribed activities that hold religious or cultural significance for a certain group of people. They serve various purposes: promoting social solidarity by expressing shared values, facilitating the transmission of cultural knowledge and regulating emotions.

  3. 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]

  4. Religious values - Wikipedia

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    Religious values are against divorce unless during a situation of abuse or adultery. [11] Studies show that this is due to the fact that religions benefit from marriage. [11] The value of family is evident in many religions, especially Christianity. [11] Christian teachings, which mainly originate in the Bible, consider divorce to be a sin. [11]

  5. 30 Christmas Traditions From Around the World - AOL

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    Some traditions like a Christmas feast and caroling mirror those in other countries, but several Belarusian Christmas rituals and superstitions stand out, according to the tourism agency, such as ...

  6. Theory of basic human values - Wikipedia

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    Circle chart of values in the theory of basic human values [1] The theory of basic human values is a theory of cross-cultural psychology and universal values developed by Shalom H. Schwartz. The theory extends previous cross-cultural communication frameworks such as Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory. Schwartz identifies ten basic human ...

  7. Myth and ritual - Wikipedia

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    [3] Some of these scholars (e.g., W. Robertson-Smith, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, S. H. Hooke) supported the "primacy of ritual" hypothesis, which claimed that "every myth is derived from a particular ritual and that the syntagmatic quality of myth is a reproduction of the succession of ritual act."

  8. Ritual family - Wikipedia

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    Rites typically result from local variations and traditions, sometimes becoming further distinguished as uses of ritual families. [2] Some ritual families originated with the early focal points of Christianity, such as Rome ( Roman Rite ), Alexandria ( Alexandrian liturgical rites ), and Antioch ( East and West Syriac Rites ). [ 6 ]

  9. Moral Injury: Healing - The Huffington Post

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    On the battlefield, some have devised makeshift rituals of cleansing and forgiveness. At the end of a brutal 12-month combat tour in Iraq, one battalion chaplain gathered the troops and handed out slips of paper. He asked the soldiers to jot down everything they were sorry for, ashamed of, angry about or regretted.