Ritual
Scope Note
Performance of symbolic acts in prescribed forms such as ringing bells, burning candles, sprinkling with holy water; gestures (e.g., sign of the cross), recital of formulas (e.g., blessings); praying in prescribed forms (e.g., tobacco invocations, chanting, with rosary, with prayer wheel); recitation of mantras, litanies, and liturgies; formal processions; making of pilgrimages; etc.
History Note
The scope note was rewritten in 2000.
- Broader Term
- 780 Religious Practices
- Related Terms
- 782 Prayers And Sacrifices
- 796 Organized Ceremonial
- 801 Numerology
- Use Fors
- Beads (rosary)
- Blessings (ritual)
- Candles (religious ritual use)
- Communion (details of ritual)
- Credos (prayers)
- Holy water (use)
- Incantations (ritual)
- Litanies (recitation)
- Liturgies (recitation)
- Mantras
- Mass (ritual)
- Mechanical praying
- Medals (religious)
- Pilgrimage (ritual)
- Prayers (ritual)
- Processions (ritual)
- Ritual (religious)
- Rosaries (reciting)
- Sauna, in ritual practice
- Tolling of bells (ritual)
- Wheels (prayer)
- Identifier
- 788
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