Home›Initiatory Rituals›Origin Period Start Year›1st centuryBrowse By1st centuryThis page groups rituals by the year their recorded history begins. Wikipedia notes that "the word 'ritual' is first recorded in English in 1570, and came into use in the 1600s to mean 'the prescribed order of performing religious services'." Browsing by start year lets a visitor see how far back a given ritual's documented history actually reaches.FactsLearn More1st centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedInitiation is treated as a species of rite of passage on van Gennep's 1909 three-stage scheme - separation, liminality, incorporation - as elaborated by Victor Turner in 1969. The scheme is a comparative frame devised by its authors, not an account any tradition gives of its own rite. 2OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRites that admit a person to a status, community or degree of knowledge not previously held. The atlas records that such rites exist, who confers them and what they are held to accomplish. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRituals 1StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2Learn MoreThe Initiatory Rituals This group holds initiatory rituals, the ceremonies by which a person is admitted into a religion, order or degree, or consecrated to a sacred role. Initiation typically enacts a symbolic death and rebirth, marking the passage into a new spiritual state. The browser will find initiatory rituals from various traditions. The entries describe each rite's form and meaning, noting the tradition and the admission or elevation it enacts.1st centuryFilter Results2 entriesFrequencyAllOnce, or at a turning point in a life (2)Life Stage MarkedAllEntry into the community or the order (1)Ordination, profession or vows (1)ObligationAllObligatory (1)Undertaken only with authorisation or transmission (1)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (2)Social FormAllPerformed by an officiant for a recipient (2)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)PractitionerAllClergy or ordained officiants (2)Native To RegionAllJudea (2)TraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (2)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (2)Aladura (1)Amish (1)Anabaptism (1)Anglican Communion (2)Anglicanism (2)Armenian Apostolic Church (2)Assyrian Church of the East (1)Baptist (2)Calvinism (Reformed) (2)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (2)Church of Cyprus (2)Church of England (2)Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (1)Church of Greece (2)Church of Ireland (2)Church of Scotland (2)Church of Sweden (2)Church of the Nazarene (2)Churches of Christ (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (2)Disciples of Christ (1)Dutch Reformed Church (2)Eastern Orthodoxy (2)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (2)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (2)Free Methodist Church (2)Georgian Orthodox Church (2)Global Methodist Church (2)Greek Orthodox Church (2)Kimbanguist Church (1)Lutheranism (2)Maronite Church (2)Mennonites (1)Methodism (2)Moravian Church (1)National Baptist Convention of America (2)Old Believers (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (2)Presbyterianism (2)Progressive National Baptist Convention (2)Roman Catholicism (2)Romanian Orthodox Church (2)Russian Orthodox Church (2)Saint Thomas Christians (1)Serbian Orthodox Church (2)Seventh-day Adventism (1)The Episcopal Church (2)The United Methodist Church (2)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2)Wesleyan Church (2)Zion Christian Church (1)Originated InAllJudea (2)Originates In LanguageAllKoine Greek (1)Kind of ritualAllChristian Initiation and Ordination Rites (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 2Baptism1st centuryHoly Orders1st centurySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensionstier 1Catherine Bell, Oxford University Press, 1997Basic Genres of Ritual ActionView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.