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This page groups rituals by the region where they are native. Wikipedia's account of rites of affliction gives the example of anthropologist Victor Turner, who "uses the example of the Isoma ritual among the Ndembu of northwestern Zambia to illustrate" how such a rite works. Browsing by region lets a visitor find every ritual native to one part of the world.

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Set rites whose content is a period of meditation performed in a prescribed form on a prescribed occasion, as distinct from meditation kept as a standing personal discipline, which the atlas treats as a practice. The line between the two is this classification's own and is not one the traditions draw. 2
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The meditative rituals

This small group holds a meditative ritual, a ceremonial form of contemplative practice, in which meditation is framed and structured as a rite rather than practised informally.

The browser will find the ritual the atlas classes here. The entry describes its form and aim, noting the tradition in which it is performed.

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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions
Catherine Bell, Oxford University Press, 1997View the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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