Question

• Describe the community involvement.
  Apply the terms liminality and coummunitas to this coming of age ritual
  What do you think the importance is to the individuals undergoing the ritual and to the community?
  Explain why this ritual is religious and not secular

Answer 1

The ritual occurs when a person leaves one group to join another. It involves a change in social status. In cultural anthropology, the term is the legalization of ritualism, a French term coined by the Arnold Van Gennep in his work, Les Rites of Passage. The term is now fully accepted in anthropology as well as in literature and popular culture in many modern languages.
The population of a society belongs to many groups, some more important to individuals than others. Van Gennep uses the metaphor "as a house, a room, a room and a corridor." Crossing occurs when an individual leaves one group to join another group. In comparison, he changes rooms.

In addition, Van Gennep distinguishes between the world and the sacred world. The theory of civilization on the scale suggests that the lower level represents the "simplest level of development", he hypothesized that "social groups in such societies also have a religious-magical foundation." Many groups in modern industrial societies practice traditions that can be traced back to earlier sacred stages. Passing between these groups requires a ritual or ritual, and hence a passage.

Van Gennep's remaining books describe the rituals of crossing and arranging by species, though he eventually despises them: " There are two universes, especially two: the separation of men and women, and the separation between religion, pornography and sacredness. (Previously, translators used the world for laity.) He declined to be honored, saying he was the first to recognize this type of religion. In his work, he focuses on groups and rituals that people may encounter on a regular basis: pregnancy, childbirth, initiation, marriage, funeral, and so on. He mentioned other points, such as crossing the border, crossing borders into different cultural areas, such as places of different religions.