Home›Lifecycle Rituals›Life Stage Marked›MarriageBrowse ByMarriageThis page groups rituals by the point in a person's life they mark. Wikipedia defines a rite of passage as "a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another, including adoption, baptism, coming of age, graduation, inauguration, engagement, and marriage." Browsing this way lets a visitor find every ritual tied to one particular life stage, across many traditions at once.FactsLearn MoreMarriageSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe category is van Gennep's: Les rites de passage (1909) proposed that such rites everywhere follow a three-stage pattern of separation, liminality and incorporation, and Victor Turner's 1969 work on liminality made the middle stage the centre of the frame. It is a scholars' scheme, not a traditions' one. 2OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRites marking a passage in an individual life - birth and naming, coming of age, marriage, ordination, death. Nearly every tradition marks some of these, but not the same set, and which passages are marked by religious rite rather than by civil custom differs by tradition and by period. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRituals 1StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2Learn MoreThe lifecycle rituals This group gathers lifecycle rituals, the rites that mark the great transitions of a human life: birth and naming, coming of age, marriage, and other passages by which a person moves from one status to the next. Such rites of passage are found in every religious tradition and are among the most universal features of religious life. The browser will find lifecycle rituals from across the world's traditions. The entries describe each rite's form, meaning and setting, noting the tradition to which it belongs and the transition it marks.MarriageFilter Results15 entriesOrigin Period Start YearAll-1000 (1)-700 (1)-500 (1)200 (2)610 (1)622 (1)1100 (1)1500 (1)1900 (1)Attested InAllHadith (1)Torah (1)FrequencyAllOnce, or at a turning point in a life (15)Closed Practice StatusAllClosed ceremonial knowledge, described but not reproduced (1)ObligationAllObligatory (6)Obligatory on those who meet its conditions (1)Optional and voluntary (2)Recommended and meritorious, not required (2)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (15)Social FormAllPerformed alone (1)Performed by a gathered group (10)Performed by an officiant for a recipient (1)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (9)PractitionerAllAll adherents of the tradition (2)Clergy or ordained officiants (1)Householders, those living in the world (1)Lay people (5)Officiant Led (5)Trained or authorised specialists (1)Native To RegionAllAncient Israel (4)Arabia (2)Britain (1)Eastern Europe (2)Indian Subcontinent (1)Japan (1)Punjab (1)TraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (1)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1)Anglican Communion (1)Anglicanism (1)Armenian Apostolic Church (2)Assyrian Church of the East (1)Baptist (1)Beta Israel (1)Breslov Hasidism (7)Calvinism (Reformed) (1)Chabad-Lubavitch (7)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (1)Church of Cyprus (2)Church of England (1)Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (1)Church of Greece (2)Church of Ireland (1)Church of Scotland (1)Church of Sweden (1)Church of the Nazarene (1)Conservative Judaism (2)Coptic Orthodoxy (2)Disciples of Christ (1)Dutch Reformed Church (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (2)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (2)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1)Free Methodist Church (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (2)Global Methodist Church (1)Greek Orthodox Church (2)Haredi Judaism (7)Hasidic Judaism (7)Humanistic Judaism (1)Karaite Judaism (1)Lutheranism (1)Maronite Church (1)Mennonites (1)Methodism (1)Modern Orthodox Judaism (7)Moravian Church (1)National Baptist Convention of America (1)Old Believers (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (2)Orthodox Judaism (6)Presbyterianism (1)Progressive National Baptist Convention (1)Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends) (1)Reconstructionist Judaism (1)Reform Judaism (2)Roman Catholicism (2)Romanian Orthodox Church (2)Russian Orthodox Church (2)Saint Thomas Christians (1)Serbian Orthodox Church (2)Shia (Twelver) (1)The Episcopal Church (1)The United Methodist Church (1)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2)Wesleyan Church (1)Originated InAllAncient Israel (4)Arabia (2)Britain (1)Eastern Europe (2)Indian Subcontinent (1)Japan (1)Punjab (1)Originates In LanguageAllArabic (1)Classical Arabic (1)Hebrew (4)Punjabi (1)Sanskrit (1)Yiddish (1)Kind of ritualAllMarriage Rites (13)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 15Anand KarajMarriageBedekenMarriageChalitzahMarriageChuppahMarriageHandfastingMarriageHoly MatrimonyMarriageKiddushin and NissuinMarriageMarriage CeremonyMarriageNikahMarriageOrthodox Crowning (Stefana)MarriageSheva BrachotMarriageShinzen KekkonMarriageVivahaMarriageWalimaMarriageYichudMarriageSources1. 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.