Rituals

“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.” - Abraham Verghese

 

• Do you have rituals you participate in?

• Have you established any of your own (or your family’s own) rituals?

• How important is conveyance of themes via rituals?

• Have rituals declined in society?

• Have they been personalized?

• Are there things we experience that are rituals but we don’t think of them as rituals?

• Is there a difference between a sacrament and a ritual?