This page groups rituals by the event or setting they trace their origin to. Wikipedia gives the American Thanksgiving dinner as an example, noting it "may not be formal, yet is ostensibly based on an event from the early Puritan settlement of America." Browsing this way lets a visitor see the historical occasion a ritual claims to commemorate.
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What Defines This GroupingRites that remove a condition the tradition treats as impurity - by washing, by abstention, by transfer to a substitute - and restore a person or place to a state fit for worship. Impurity in this sense is a ritual status rather than dirt or sin, and what causes it differs sharply between Shinto, Jewish, Islamic and Hindu law. 2 Status
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The Purification Rituals
This group gathers purification rituals, the ceremonies of cleansing that remove impurity or sin and restore fitness for worship or ordinary life: ritual washing, lustration and rites of atonement performed in formal ceremonial form.
The browser will find purification rituals from across the traditions. The entries describe each rite's form and the conception of purity it serves, noting the tradition that performs it.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. PurificationView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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