SRS 1110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jason Wisdom, Ethnobotany, Liminality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovich

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Perspective rituals rituals that are required to be performed: may be set forth in religious texts, may be required by deity or a religious authority, or may simply be based in tradition. Situational rituals/crisis rituals other rituals are performed because of a particular need of an individual or a community: often arise in frequent times of crisis. Another way to describe rituals is to identify them as being performed on a regular basis as part of a religious calendar or being performed wen a particular need arises, such as marriage or death. Former is called periodic rituals/crisis rituals: may be performed daily or several times a day, as in the daily prayers, ex: sunday morning church service is both prescribed and periodic, ex: cultural rituals diwali. Latter is called occasional rituals: classification of rituals as prescribed or situational is separate from the classification as periodic or occasional. Rituals that attempt to influence or control nature.