a rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another, including birth, coming-of-age, marriage and death. one of the rite of passage is funeral and its rituals .a funeral is a ceremony for honoring, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a cu...

Mary Douglas argues that, ‘There are some things we cannot experience without ritual.’ Ex-prisoner reintegration may be one of them. The punishment process involves an inordinate amount of ritual behavior, from the drama of the courtroom to the elaborate de-individuation processes involved in institutionalization. Durkheim argues that these rituals serve a distinct purpose for society: engender...

Slana, Virginia, "Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature" (2014).

Collective rituals are biologically ancient and culturally pervasive, yet few studies have quantified their effects on participants. We assessed two plausible models from qualitative anthropology: ritual empathy predicts affective convergence among all ritual participants irrespective of ritual role; rite-of-passage predicts emotional differences, specifically that ritual initiates will express...