Home›Sacrificial Rituals›Practitioner›Householders, those living in the worldBrowse ByHouseholders, those living in the worldThis page groups rituals by who is qualified to perform them. Wikipedia notes that "healing rites performed by shamans frequently identify social disorder as the cause, and make the restoration of social relationships the cure." Browsing by practitioner lets a visitor find every ritual entrusted to one particular kind of specialist.FactsLearn MoreHouseholders, those living in the worldSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRites in which something is given up by a prescribed procedure to a recipient the tradition names - an animal, grain, ghee, a substitute. The one English word covers acts with no common mechanism: a Vedic oblation poured into fire, a Norse blot and an Islamic qurbani whose meat is distributed to the poor answer to different accounts of what the giving does. 2OriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe comparative category was built by successive theorists - Tylor's gift theory, Robertson Smith's communion, Hubert and Mauss's essay of 1898, later Girard and Burkert - each generalising from a different tradition. No one theory has been accepted as covering the field, and the category holds only loosely. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRituals 1StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedUsed, but its validity as a comparative category is disputed 2Learn MoreThe sacrificial rituals This group gathers sacrificial rituals, the rites of offering, in which something of value (food, drink, animal or symbol) is given to the divine, whether in thanksgiving, petition, atonement or communion. Sacrifice is among the most ancient and widespread forms of religious act. The browser will find sacrificial rituals from across the traditions. The entries describe each rite's form and meaning, noting the tradition that performs it and the purpose the offering serves.Householders, those living in the worldFilter Results3 entriesAddressed ToAllAgni (2)Origin Period Start YearAll-800 (1)1392 (1)Unesco StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (1)FrequencyAllAnnual (1)As the occasion requires (1)Several times a day (1)Closed Practice StatusAllPartly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (3)Social FormAllPerformed alone or together (1)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)Native To RegionAllIndian Subcontinent (2)Korea (1)Holds ElementAllFire (1)Originated InAllIndian Subcontinent (2)Korea (1)Originates In LanguageAllClassical Chinese (1)Vedic Sanskrit (1)Kind of ritualAllChinese and Korean State Ancestral Sacrifices (1)Vedic Sacrificial Rites (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 3AgnihotraHouseholders, those living in the worldHomaHouseholders, those living in the worldJongmyo JeryeHouseholders, those living in the worldSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. SacrificeView 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.