Home›Lifecycle Rituals›Origin Period Start Year›5th century BCEBrowse By5th century BCEThis 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 More5th century BCESourcesComments (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.5th century BCEFilter Results2 entriesFrequencyAllOnce, or at a turning point in a life (2)Life Stage MarkedAllMarriage (1)Ordination, profession or vows (1)ObligationAllObligatory (2)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (2)Social FormAllPerformed by a gathered group (2)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)PractitionerAllOfficiant Led (1)The candidate undergoing the rite (1)Native To RegionAllAncient Israel (1)TraditionAllAnglican Communion (1)Anglicanism (1)Armenian Apostolic Church (1)Breslov Hasidism (1)Chabad-Lubavitch (1)Church of Cyprus (1)Church of England (1)Church of Greece (1)Church of Ireland (1)Conservative Judaism (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (1)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (1)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (1)Greek Orthodox Church (1)Haredi Judaism (1)Hasidic Judaism (1)Modern Orthodox Judaism (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (1)Orthodox Judaism (1)Reform Judaism (1)Roman Catholicism (1)Romanian Orthodox Church (1)Russian Orthodox Church (1)Serbian Orthodox Church (1)The Episcopal Church (1)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1)Originated InAllAncient Israel (1)Originates In LanguageAllHebrew (1)Kind of ritualAllMarriage Rites (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 2Chuppah5th century BCEMonastic Vows5th century BCESources1. 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.