ByOskarele
On many occasions, rites and rituals are associated with something "sacred" to something "momentous." So from this perspective are related to the ceremonies of worship, public (masses, funerals ...) and private (private prayer, blessing of the table, the child Jesus Bedtime).
But we must also bear in mind that there are rites and rituals in secular ceremonies, which often present a character so solemn and religious.
The difference lies in the symbolic value that gives the ritual.
And there is also a clear relationship between ritual and symbol, the latter understood as something beyond our immediate perception is represented or represented by a symbolic object or image (eg the ring is a symbol of marriage, flag home, the dog of fidelity or perfidy snake).
Thus it is clear that certain practices are eminently symbolic ritual, because Mediated through postures, gestures or words a relationship with an entity not only absent (as in the case of simple sign) but impossible to perceive, inaccessible except through self- symbol.
That does not mean that every symbol is rite.
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For example, although it is precisely the symbolic system more abstract and intellectualized, while other symbolic systems such as arts, ideologies or myths, if you assume the existence of certain rituals.
There are several elements that are closely related to ritual, without which there could be no work.
For example, belief, faith, or what we consider sacred, or physical manifestations that serve as a tool for the rite.
one hand it is a set of beliefs, which may take the form of adherence to particular religious doctrine or magic but also adherence to certain founding myths of a nation (nationalism) or certain secular ideals (political thought). In all these cases it is a matter of faith, understood as something that eludes rational demonstration, which is directed to a supreme being, or values \u200b\u200bthat have for the believer a sacred character, even simple political views.
Thus, we might say that there are rites without God and without mystery, but no rites without faith or belief, and, of course, faith without rituals.
But we assumed that the "sacred" is a field and a complex notion.
Etymologically, the "sacred" is opposed to the "profane" means one which is separated or limited, the venue, the place reserved in the fall only to the initiated.
anthropological But in practice the thing is much more complex, showing an enormous ambiguity in what is considered sacred is in dichotomies as pure / impure, order / disorder or respect / violation.
After all, what concerns only what we consider "sacred" to transcendence, to communicate with the supernatural, superhuman, they refer to all those archaic rites and rituals and traditional?
Or Can also seen as linked to secular values \u200b\u200bof civic order, moral or political?
think so.
For example: the figure of Hitler became sacred to his followers, to a degree comparable to the devotion felt by other religious mythical beings. So you can more or less raised, that certain organizations or socio-political situations take on a value of "sacred" and certainly does thanks to the ritual involved. Furthermore
faith, belief in what we consider sacred, but we can not express through a set of bodily behavior: posture, gestures, dances, and other vocalizations body procedures.
This is obvious, since there can be no ritual that does not take the body as a direct or indirect support of its action and its project. Whether as a place to lay down signs (tattoos, paintings) or to practice some interventions (piercings, amputations). Whether as a source of power or influence. Whether as the subject of sex, country of enormous value to certain rituals.
So when we reach the end of this introduction, we can more or less raise a potentially broad definition of what we mean by "ritual" to see what you think:
A ritual is a codified system of PRACTICE, with certain conditions of place and time, possessor of a vivid sense and symbolic value for its actors and witnesses, which involves the collaboration of the body and some relationship with the sacred, understood not only as something religious.
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