Rites of Passage - Religious

Religious

  • Annaprashana
  • Baptism (Christening)
  • Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Judaism
  • Circumcision, mainly in Judaism (Bris)
  • Confirmation
  • Confirmation in Reform Judaism
  • Diving for the Cross, in some Orthodox Christian churches
  • First Eucharist and First Confession (especially First Communion in Catholicism)
  • Hajj
  • Rumspringa
  • Saṃskāra a series of sacraments in Hinduism
  • Shinbyu in Theravada Buddhism
  • Vision quest in some Native American cultures

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