Post by alexander on Apr 14, 2016 15:57:35 GMT
Look at page 224. What is a life course? What is a rite of passage? Why are rites of passages important? Give an example of a rite of passage in your/our culture and explain why it is important.
A person’s life course consists of the culturally defined age categories through which he or she passes between birth and death. A rite of passage is a ceremony and marks the transition from one phase of life to another. Although it is often used to describe the tumultuous transition from adolescence to adulthood, it does refer to any of life’s transitions. There are many passages in our lives if we choose to mark and celebrate them. Most concerned with initiatory rites of passage, journeys is. Defined in the dictionary as, initiation is, “the rites, ceremonies, ordeals or instructions with which a youth is formally invested with adult status in a community, society or sect.” to include rituals and ceremonies that help adults transition to new life roles along the path of adulthood all the way into meaningful elderhood we extend that definition. When of passage experiences we design rite, out of the experience with a new and empowering story that helps them take responsibility for the decisions that set the course of their future, we work to assure that initiates come. We help initiates create the story of who they are and the kind of life they build based within the exploration of their own personal values want to. To their community we also help them find the story that connects them. To all aspects of their lives stretching all the way out to the larger world of through this self-exploration initiates emerge with a stronger sense of personal responsibility which they are a part. Of passage in this way both the community and the initiate benefit from a rite. To transmit its core values and confer the role responsibilities appropriate to the initiate's stage of life an intentional rite of passage experience provides the space for the community, thus insuring cultural continuity, of knitting together of the generations a sort.
A person’s life course consists of the culturally defined age categories through which he or she passes between birth and death. A rite of passage is a ceremony and marks the transition from one phase of life to another. Although it is often used to describe the tumultuous transition from adolescence to adulthood, it does refer to any of life’s transitions. There are many passages in our lives if we choose to mark and celebrate them. Most concerned with initiatory rites of passage, journeys is. Defined in the dictionary as, initiation is, “the rites, ceremonies, ordeals or instructions with which a youth is formally invested with adult status in a community, society or sect.” to include rituals and ceremonies that help adults transition to new life roles along the path of adulthood all the way into meaningful elderhood we extend that definition. When of passage experiences we design rite, out of the experience with a new and empowering story that helps them take responsibility for the decisions that set the course of their future, we work to assure that initiates come. We help initiates create the story of who they are and the kind of life they build based within the exploration of their own personal values want to. To their community we also help them find the story that connects them. To all aspects of their lives stretching all the way out to the larger world of through this self-exploration initiates emerge with a stronger sense of personal responsibility which they are a part. Of passage in this way both the community and the initiate benefit from a rite. To transmit its core values and confer the role responsibilities appropriate to the initiate's stage of life an intentional rite of passage experience provides the space for the community, thus insuring cultural continuity, of knitting together of the generations a sort.