Family Living 120

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Family Living 120

• The Wedding Ritual

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Wedding Rituals

• All wedding rituals usually have two things in
  common
• A Ceremony held in public with witnesses, and
• Legal requirements that must be fulfilled.
• Public ceremonies were important in preliterate
  societies.
• In the absence of written records, such
  ceremonies served to fix in the minds of all who
  witnessed them that the couple were legitimately
  married.

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Religious and Marriage Rituals

• Up until the tenth century it was not uncommon
  for marriage to take place by mutual consent.
• At first, it consisted only of a benediction by a
  priest then it became customary for the
  newlyweds to attend a church service after the
  wedding.
• By 1215 the church had become the authority of
  publically marry people.

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Modern Marriages

• Nowadays a wedding may be performed by any person
  who has the legal qualifications to do so such as
  a judge or an official, and no religious
  involvement is necessary unless the couple
  desires it.
• Legal requirements still include a license, a
  brief ceremony of some sort during which the
  couple signify their consent before a minimum
  number of witnesses, and the signing of a
  marriage document.

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Marriage and Religions

• In three groups you will investigate one of the
  following wedding rituals from the three
  religions
• Christianity
• Islam
• Hinduism
• Read through the information in the textbook on
  pages 155-159 and as a group decide the most
  important aspects of marriage in this religion.
• Choose one person to come write the vital
  information on the board.
• As a class we will discuss the difference between
  the three religions.

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Class Discussion, Questions Survey

• Any questions?
• What did we learn?
• Religious differences with regards to marriage.
• Islam vs. Christianity vs. Hinduism
• Tomorrows Class
• The Five Types of Marriages