Religions, 2023 Ancient Chinese wedding ceremonies served as the solemn rituals for witnessing and establishing marriage, primarily aimed at forging kinship ties between two families and fulfilling the obligations of ancestral worship and lineage continuation.
Yu Wu, Zhidiankui Xu
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The psychological significance of female traditional initiation rites among the Bakopa community of South Africa: a qualitative approach to the understanding of koma ya basadi [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyIntroductionFemale traditional initiation rites are deeply entrenched in the cultural fabric of many societies, representing profound rites of passage marking the transition from girlhood to womanhood.
Mmakotsedi Magampa +7 more
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Between Tradition and Modernity: Dynamics of Krobo Marriage Rites in the Eastern Region of Ghana
Journal of Contemporary Rituals and TraditionsPurpose of the Study: This research delves into the dynamic evolution of marriage rites within the Krobo community in Eastern Ghana, focusing on the 'la-pomi' and 'fia' ceremonies.
Elizabeth Anorkor Abbey, Nadir A. Nasidi
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International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2022 The present formative research study reviewed existing literature relating to adolescent rites of passage and initiation ceremonies in East and Southern Africa (ESA), with a focus on Eswatini, Malawi, South Africa and Zambia to assess the impacts of ...
Elizabeth Schroeder +2 more
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Restrictions on Funeral Gatherings during COVID-19: A Religious/Spiritual Perspective among the Zimbabwean Community Living in South Africa [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2023 This essay endeavors to understand the impact of COVID-19 hard lockdown restrictions on funeral gatherings from a Zimbabwean religious/spiritual perspective.
Phillip Musoni
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Structural and functional research of Ukrainian wedding rituals
Науковий вісник Чернівецького національного університету імені Юрія Федьковича. Історія, 2022 The aim of the article is to prove the possibility of applying the method of structural and functional analysis to scientific research of the ceremonial cycle of Ukrainian weddings.
Oleksandr Kukharenko
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« Des « rites de passage » avant van Gennep : les cérémonies funéraires dans les traités antiquaires et « ethnographiques » de la première modernité (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) » [PDF]
, 2016 Rappelant le travail d’archéologie de l’ethnologie et de l’histoire comparée des religions auquel Arnold van Gennep se livre entre 1905 et 1920, ce texte montre qu’il remonte progressivement jusqu’à l’ouvrage de l’antiquaire Claude Guichard, Funérailles ...
Grosse, Christian
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The Past ‘Interpreter’. Historical Stratifications in the Ritual Symbolism of Saint Joseph Festivals and Holy Week in Sicily [PDF]
, 2020 I temi della continuità culturale e della "sopravvivenza" del simbolismo rituale sono stati al centro dibattito in campo religioso antropologico e storico.
Buttitta I
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Vox Patrum, 2015 The aim of the present paper is to thoroughly reconstruct the meaning of the official cult ceremonies for the social life of the Roman Imperial army. Crucial to the analysis is the evidence produced by the Feriale Duranum, a papyrus document dating to ...
Tomasz Dziurdzik
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1979 In this paper, the author discusses different understandings of the symbolism of liminality. According to Van Gennep’s definition, rites de passage are rites which accompany every change of place, state, social position and age.
Juha Pentikäinen
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