An Introduction to Rites of Passage and Liminality

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An Introduction to Rites of Passage and Liminality
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What is a Rite of Passage?
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Source Scottish Parliament
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X-ring Investiture Ceremony

• Separation
• ??
• Transition
• ??
• Integration
• ??

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Chivalric Investiture

• Separation
  Transition
• --Vigil of Purification --Breakfast
• --Confession and Eucharist --Dubbing Ceremony
• Integration
• --Feast

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Liminality
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So liminality is?
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Communitas
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Chaucers Pilgrims
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Feast of Fools
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Liminal Spaces?
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Investment of the Boy BishopSource Wikipedia
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