confirmation rite
Religious maturity ritual
A confirmation rite is a religious ceremony marking a person's affirmation of faith and full membership in a religious community.
In Christianity, confirmation typically occurs in adolescence or adulthood and involves the laying on of hands by clergy, signifying the receipt of the Holy Spirit.
Similar rites exist across traditions—Judaism has bar and bat mitzvah, while various Indigenous cultures have coming-of-age ceremonies.
The term emphasizes the ritual aspect of confirming one's commitment to religious beliefs and community belonging.
- coming of ageReaching adult status
- family involvementRelatives' active participation
- CatholicismPapal Christian denomination
- laying on of handsRitual healing through touch
- community celebrationShared local festivity
church ceremony · Judaism · bar mitzvah · Anglicanism · spiritual maturity · Lutheranism · Eastern Orthodoxy · scripture reading · Methodism · divine blessing · Pentecostalism · Mormonism · Presbyterianism · moral development · ceremonial robes · white dress · Islam · personal transformation
confirmation riteinfant baptism
Christening young children sacramentally
baptism · christening · last rites · funeral rite · burial rites
confirmation riteapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
excommunication · abjuration · defection · deconversion · recantation
confirmation ritecivil ceremony
Nonreligious legal marriage
graduation ceremony · quinceañera · sweet sixteen · debutante ball · driver's license
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