initiation rites
Membership admission customs
Initiation rites are ceremonies marking a person's transition into a new status or group—adulthood, membership in a society, or entry into a profession.
These rituals often involve tests, ordeals, or symbolic acts: The fraternity's initiation rites included a week of hazing.
Anthropologists study initiation rites across cultures as expressions of social structure and identity formation.
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- vision questRite seeking supernatural guidance
- sweat lodgeHeated structure for ritual purification
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
coming of age ceremony · ordination · marriage customs · graduation · marriage ceremony · quinceañera · elders · confirmation · firewalking · ceremonial dances · scarification · anointing · bar mitzvah · fasting rituals · sacred sites · citizenship ceremony · liminal · ancestral spirits
- traditionstradition, custom, customs, cultural practices, rituals
- customscustoms, customs clearance, wedding custom, customs declaration, burial custom
- medieval guildscraftsmen, artisans, apprentice, master craftsman, guild hall
- professional traditionswhite coat ceremony, bar exam, swearing in, oath taking, induction
- tribal culturetribe, clan mother, common ancestry, clan loyalty, elder council
- Work Traditionscraft traditions, trade guilds, craft guilds, apprenticeships, work songs
initiation ritesexcommunication
Formal barring from sacraments
expulsion · dishonorable discharge · exile · drumming out · banishment
initiation ritesfuneral rites
Customs for honoring deceased
last rites · death rituals · burial ceremonies · memorial services · memorial ceremonies