Does ritual exist? Defining and classifying ritual based on belief theory
Abstract With both the terms “rite of passage” and “ritual” facing difficulties as analytic concepts, we have no way to differentiate between common behavior, rite of passage, and ritual in a strict sense until today. Through careful reading, we find that van Gennep’s original expressions of nearly...
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| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-05-01
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| Series: | The Journal of Chinese Sociology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-018-0073-x |