Ecstatic Religious Practices
Scope Note
Group religious practices inducing altered states of consciousness with or without alcohol and/or drugs, frenzied singing and dancing, etc., resulting in trance, possession, glossolalia; ceremonial license (e.g., phallic rites, temporary lifting of sex restraints, ceremonial intoxication); induced hysteria, hallucination, and swoon; religious revivalism, snake handling, Greek and Roman orgies, etc.
History Note
The scope note was revised and the term changed from "Orgies" to "Ecstatic Religious Practices" in 2000.
- Broader Term
- 780 Religious Practices
- Related Terms
- 273 Alcoholic Beverages
- 793 Priesthood
- 828 Ethnopsychology
- 830 Sex
- Use Fors
- Altered states of consciousness (trances)
- Bacchanalia
- Ceremonial intoxication
- Faith healing (ecstatic religious practice)
- Gift of tongues (ecstatic religious practice)
- Glossolalia (ecstatic religious practice)
- Hallucination (religious)
- Hysteria (religious)
- Insight (mystical)
- Mysticism (religious practice of groups)
- Phallic rites
- Phallicism (religious)
- Prostitution (religious)
- Revivalism (religious)
- Rites (phallic)
- Speaking in tongues (ecstatic religious experience)
- Temple prostitution
- Tongues, speaking in (ecstatic religious practice)
- Trance (ecstatic religious practice)
- Identifier
- 786
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