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Rehearsing common rites

Synonyms:
Familiarizing secular rites
Broader:
Using rites and symbols
Preserving common religion
Creating community rituals
Ritualizing common life
Narrower:
Celebrating life transitions
Honouring ultimate encounter
Enabling community authenticity
Requiring dramatization of religious rites
Constrains:
Defining form of religious belief
Relating stories to life situations
Particularizing context for expression of societal meaning
Constrained by:
Blocking degeneration to sterile ceremony
Facilitates:
Rehearsing stories
Developing common cause
Maintaining belief systems
Demanding meaning-giving stories
Demanding concrete symbols of belief
Demanding universal context for expression of societal meaning
Facilitated by:
Providing ritual symbols
Reminding of importance of common rites
Introducing new aspects of social reality
Values:
Common sense
Subjects:
Religious Practice → Rituals
Religious Practice → Laity
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

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