This page groups rituals by how settled or contested their scholarly description is. Wikipedia notes plainly that "the field of ritual studies has seen a number of conflicting definitions of the term." Browsing this way lets a visitor see which rituals scholars broadly agree on and which remain genuinely disputed.
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What Defines This GroupingSet 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 Learn More
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.
A standard analytic category in the study of religion
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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