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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
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Laity
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies