Ritual
ritual a serial operations which are considered as an use is and is stipulated by context and culture it is indicated. Rituals can be expressions of people or animal, that in certain circumstances are repeated. These expressions can exist from some elements but also from a complete scale to several elements. The elements from which rituals can exist to be o.a., attitude, mimicry, gesture, dancing, song, word, consonances, shouts, food, vasten, to drink, to slaughter, wound themselves.
Anyway a ritual is characterised by a recognizable pattern.
Rituals seem on fixed habits. They have it however in itself that one there no longer thinks outside is possible. Thus is possible habit a cube for sleeping to will a fixed be. If one will think that one without cube might sleep not well, then it becomes a ritual. Nevertheless its rituals very important. One has long thought that rituals would be "superfluous". Correctly the vertouwde character of the ritual are important.
Rituals in cultures
In each culture rituals prevention. Especially at important phase in living such as birth, volwassenheid, marriage, (religious and social) obligations and dead. But wants start also ordinary if you yourself want go new gone and again.
In its simple form it can be almost imperceptibly knikken with the head. As other extrême it can summon and night-long exhaustive ritual is where alternatively and fasted on the one hand and on the other hand the use of drugs can be meditated, whipping dancing and sexual rattans, orgies, itself injury and sacrifices to the gods.
The ritual expressions can exist from some elements but also from a complete scale to several elements. The elements from which rituals can exist to be o.a., attitude, mimicry, gesture, dancing, song, word, consonances, shouts, food, vasten, to drink, to slaughter, wound themselves.
Although the most known rituals which from church services to be, a ritual is not per se religious. Niet-religieuze people know also rituals. Also in companies they prevention, for example a ritual is presented as someone jubilee has reached.
In the Western religions can be taken as an example wrong of Roman Catholic church prescribed with prayed, kneeling and standing and sit at certain moments like at a marriage, raising a kelk, showing a piece zuurdesem bread and drinking wine and food and blessing that bread.
Rituals have influence on the psyche of people because they frequently dovetail archetype according to Jung. In psychology become certain forms of compulsief behaviour also rituals called.
See also
