Table of Contents
73 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Amarkantak, Anuppur, Apostolic succession, Baptism, Bar and bat mitzvah, Brazil, Bronze Age, Central Australia, Ceremonial magic, Christianity, Circumcision, Cognitive dissonance, Collective bargaining, Confirmation, Conformity, Contract, Courtesy name, Cruise ship, Edwin Mellen Press, Eleusinian Mysteries, Female genital mutilation, Fraternity, Gang, Gang rape, Genital modification and mutilation, Gnosis, Graduation, Guru, Hazing, Humiliation, India, Interpersonal attraction, Judaism, Kriya Yoga school, Lewiston, New York, Line-crossing ceremony, Mawé people, Medicine man, Military recruit training, Mircea Eliade, Mycenae, Mysticism, Need for affiliation, New Guinea Highlands, Organization, Paraponera clavata, Pedi people, Penile subincision, Person, ... Expand index (23 more) »
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Amarkantak
Amarkantak (NLK Amarakaṇṭaka) is a pilgrim town and a Nagar Panchayat in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Anuppur
Anuppur is a city in northeastern Madhya Pradesh state of central India.
Apostolic succession
Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is considered by some Christian denominations to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops.
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Baptism
Baptism (from immersion, dipping in water) is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water. Initiation and Baptism are rites of passage.
Bar and bat mitzvah
A bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, or b mitzvah (gender neutral), is a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism. Initiation and bar and bat mitzvah are rites of passage.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Central Australia
Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia.
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Ceremonial magic
Ceremonial magic (also known as ritual magic, high magic or learned magic) encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Circumcision
Circumcision is a procedure that removes the foreskin from the human penis.
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Cognitive dissonance
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental disturbance people feel when their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory.
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Collective bargaining
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.
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Confirmation
In Christian denominations that practice infant baptism, confirmation is seen as the sealing of the covenant created in baptism. Initiation and confirmation are rites of passage.
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Conformity
Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics or being like-minded.
Contract
A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties.
Courtesy name
A courtesy name, also known as a style name, is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name.
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Cruise ship
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.
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Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen Press, sometimes stylised as Mellen Press, is an academic publisher.
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Eleusinian Mysteries
The Eleusinian Mysteries (Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
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Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva.
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Fraternity
A fraternity (whence, "brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men but also women associated together for various religious or secular aims.
Gang
A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.
Gang rape
In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape,Ullman, S. E. (2013).
Genital modification and mutilation
Genital modifications are forms of body modifications applied to the human sexual organs.
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Gnosis
Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge (γνῶσις, gnōsis, f.). The term was used among various Hellenistic religions and philosophies in the Greco-Roman world.
Graduation
A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution. Initiation and graduation are rites of passage.
Guru
Guru (गुरु; IAST: guru; Pali: garu) is a Sanskrit term for a "mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.
Hazing
Hazing (American English), initiation, beasting (British English), bastardisation (Australian English), ragging (South Asian English) or deposition refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of a person's willingness to participate. Initiation and Hazing are rites of passage.
Humiliation
Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Interpersonal attraction
Interpersonal attraction, as a part of social psychology, is the study of the attraction between people which leads to the development of platonic or romantic relationships.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Kriya Yoga school
Kriya Yoga (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is a yoga system which consists of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra, intended to rapidly accelerate spiritual development and engender a profound state of tranquility and God-communion.
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Lewiston, New York
Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States.
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Line-crossing ceremony
The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. Initiation and line-crossing ceremony are rites of passage.
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Mawé people
The Mawé, also known as the Sateré or Sateré-Mawé, are an indigenous people of Brazil living in the state of Amazonas.
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Medicine man
A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas.
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Military recruit training
Military recruit training, commonly known as basic training or boot camp, refers to the initial instruction of new military personnel.
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Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.
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Mycenae
Mycenae (𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.
Mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.
Need for affiliation
The need for affiliation (N-Affil) is a term that was popularized by David McClelland and describes a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group; McClelland's thinking was strongly influenced by the pioneering work of Henry Murray who first identified underlying psychological human needs and motivational processes (1938).
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New Guinea Highlands
The New Guinea Highlands, also known as the Central Range or Central Cordillera, is a long chain of mountain ranges on the island of New Guinea, including the island's tallest peak, Puncak Jaya, Indonesia,, the highest mountain in Oceania.
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Organization
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.
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Paraponera clavata
Paraponera clavata, commonly known as the bullet ant, is a species of ant named for its extremely painful sting.
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Pedi people
The Pedi or Bapedi - also known as the Northern Sotho, Basotho ba Lebowa, bakgatla ba dithebe, Transvaal Sotho, Marota, or Dikgoshi - are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to South Africa, Botswana, and Lesotho that speak Pedi or Sepedi, which is one of the 12 official languages in South Africa.
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Penile subincision
Penile subincision is a form of genital modification or mutilation consisting of a urethrotomy, in which the underside of the penis is incised and the urethra slit open lengthwise, from the urethral opening (meatus) toward the base.
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Person
A person (people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.
Religious order
A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice.
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Reward system
The reward system (the mesocorticolimbic circuit) is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., "wanting"; desire or craving for a reward and motivation), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positively-valenced emotions, particularly ones involving pleasure as a core component (e.g., joy, euphoria and ecstasy).
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. Initiation and rite of passage are rites of passage.
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Rites of Zhou
The Rites of Zhou, originally known as "Officers of Zhou", is a Chinese work on bureaucracy and organizational theory.
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Sant Mat
Sant Mat was a spiritual movement on the Indian subcontinent during the 13th–17th centuries CE.
Scarification
Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art.
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Secret society
A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed.
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Spirituality
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
Surat Shabd Yoga
Surat Shabd Simran is a type of spiritual meditation in the Sant Mat tradition.
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Tifal language
Tifal is an Ok language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
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Ulwaluko
Ulwaluko, traditional circumcision and initiation from childhood to adulthood, is an ancient initiation rite practised (though not exclusively) by the Xhosa people, and is commonly practised throughout South Africa. Initiation and Ulwaluko are rites of passage.
Urapmin people
The Urapmin people are an ethnic group numbering about 375 people in the Telefomin District of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
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Vaishnavism
Vaishnavism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism.
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Vajrayana
Vajrayāna (वज्रयान; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Mantranāya ('path of mantra'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in Medieval India and spread to Tibet, Nepal, other Himalayan states, East Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and Mongolia.
Vocation
A vocation is an occupation to which a person is especially drawn or for which they are suited, trained or qualified.
Western esotericism
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
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Wicca
Wicca, also known as "The Craft", is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion.
William Ian Miller
William Ian Miller (born March 30, 1946) is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.
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References
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