They are often carried out to secure a social bond between the community and the sacred and between members of the community. Sacrifice is often associated with calendar rituals. The main type of calendar ritual is a new year ritual in which a community sheds the bad things and evil of the old year and starts the new. They are directed to securing the well-being of communities and individuals. Many life-crisis rites are carried out to ward off demons or evil spirits that cause bad things to happen.Ĭalendar or seasonal rites are associated with changes of nature, cycles of the sun and moon, seasons, and seed and harvest time. Life-crisis rites made to meet a crisis of an individual or community like illness, miscarriage, failure in hunt, or drought.in primal societies, it is often believed that health is supernaturally given and that disease is supernaturally caused. Types of life-cycle rites include social puberty, vocational initiation, marriage, and funerals. Rites of passage often have three elements: separation, transition, and reincorporation. They help individuals through difficulties of critical passages in life. Life-cycle rites or rites of passage are connected with critical events in the life of individuals. A religious ritual is an agreed-on and formalized pattern of ceremonial movements and verbal expressions carried out in a sacred context. The types of rituals discussed are life cycle rituals, life crisis rituals, and seasonal rituals.

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