Ritual
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A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. 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, religious symbolism, and performance.
Rituals are a feature of all known human societies. They include not only the worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also rites of passage, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages, funerals and more. Even common actions like hand-shaking and saying "hello" may be termed as rituals.
The field of ritual studies has seen a number of conflicting definitions of the term. One given by Kyriakidis is that a ritual is an outsider's or "etic" category for a set activity (or set of actions) that, to the outsider, seems irrational, non-contiguous, or illogical. The term can be used also by the insider or "emic" performer as an acknowledgement that this activity can be seen as such by the uninitiated onlooker.
In psychology, the term ritual is sometimes used in a technical sense for a repetitive behavior systematically used by a person to neutralize or prevent anxiety; it can be a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder but obsessive-compulsive ritualistic behaviors are generally isolated activities.
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- A hasty departure - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- The Inn of The Haunted Owl - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- Dreams in a brougham - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- Chichikov Bogd - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- Mr. Tilly and his gang - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- Through a rural landscape - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- The feline companion - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- Read all about it! - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- Forgotten qualities - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
- The three heads of the well - The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1 - Ritual
Live - 2006-01-20 00:00:00
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