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Rituals appeal to tradition and are generally continued to repeat historical precedent, religious rite, mores, or ceremony accurately.

The painting shows common misconceptions about the event that persist to modern times: Pilgrims did not wear such outfits, and the Wampanoag are dressed in the style of Plains Indians. The First Thanksgiving 1621, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930). Ĭatherine Bell argues that rituals can be characterized by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism and performance. The rites of past and present societies have typically involved special gestures and words, recitation of fixed texts, performance of special music, songs or dances, processions, manipulation of certain objects, use of special dresses, consumption of special food, drink, or drugs, and much more. There are hardly any limits to the kind of actions that may be incorporated into a ritual. The word "ritual" is first recorded in English in 1570, and came into use in the 1600s to mean "the prescribed order of performing religious services" or more particularly a book of these prescriptions. The original concept of ritus may be related to the Sanskrit ṛtá ("visible order)" in Vedic religion, "the lawful and regular order of the normal, and therefore proper, natural and true structure of cosmic, worldly, human and ritual events". In Roman juridical and religious usage, ritus was the proven way ( mos) of doing something, or "correct performance, custom". The English word ritual derives from the Latin ritualis, "that which pertains to rite ( ritus)". 4.10 Ritual as a methodological measure of religiosity.

4.9 Sociobiology and behavioral neuroscience.

3.6 Rites of feasting, fasting, and festivals.

3.5 Rites of sacrifice, exchange, and communion.

3.4 Calendrical and commemorative rites.

3.3 Death, mourning, and funerary rites.

In psychology, the term ritual is sometimes used in a technical sense for a repetitive behavior systematically used by a person to neutralize or prevent anxiety it can be a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder but obsessive-compulsive ritualistic behaviors are generally isolated activities. The term can be used also by the insider or " emic" performer as an acknowledgement that this activity can be seen as such by the uninitiated onlooker. One given by Kyriakidis is that a ritual is an outsider's or " etic" category for a set activity (or set of actions) that, to the outsider, seems irrational, non-contiguous, or illogical. The field of ritual studies has seen a number of conflicting definitions of the term. Even common actions like hand-shaking and saying " hello" may be termed as rituals. They include not only the worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also rites of passage, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages, funerals and more. Rituals are a feature of all known human societies. Rituals are characterized, but not defined, by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or objects, performed according to a set sequence.