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One female rite of passage still practiced in parts of Africa has drawn protests throughout the international community: among the Masai and other ... In fact, the closest approximations to traditional rites of passage in the United States are the Judeo-Christian religious ceremonies of confirmation and bar/bat mitzvah.
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Each year, around this time, young men in several South African ethnic groups participate in this traditional rite of passage. ... For South Africa's eight-year-old black administration, the initiation schools pose a political dilemma. While the country's progressive human- and child-rights laws clearly make the kind of...
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Male Rites-Of-Passage Practices In S. Africa Killing Youth: Officials from Jet provided by Find Articles at BNET ... African initiation schools, camps draped in secrecy that transform African boys to men, have been a respected rite-of-passage on the continent, but recent deaths of about 20 boys from botched circumcisions...
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Masks are used in various initiation ceremonies. These initiation ceremonies, also called rites of passage, have played an important role in African societies for centuries. ... To establish parallels between initiation rites in Africa and the stages we go through socially and religiously.
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www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2001/2/01.02.06.x.h...
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2001/2/01.02.06.x.html
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More than anything else in a Scientologist's life, it is the achievement of a higher level of freedom of thetans that is marked by religious ceremonies as rites of passage, and Scientologists endlessly strive to attain higher and higher degrees of 'operational thetans'.
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www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A521524
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Rites Of Passage; BIRTH; The human cycle of birth, growing up, marriage and death is marked all the way with religious observances in Africa. Birth is a time of huge rejoicing.
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Everyone says it: ... This is a far cry from when children had many rites of passage to ease their journey into adulthood. Instead of the tribal rites of passage of Africa, or the apprenticeships of early America, we have a glaring lack of rituals to safely lead our teens into healthy adulthood.
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geoparent.com/ages/teens/teenrites.htm
geoparent.com/ages/teens/teenrites.htm
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The Rites of Passage Institute will provide the Training, Programming, Evaluation, International Field Trips and Dissemination of Information to develop a critical mass and community of servant leaders ... NROPI Field Trips to Africa...
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www.ritesofpassage.org/passage1.htm
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Rites of passage in many cultures are used to mark the socially recognized transition to sexual maturity. Among some of the indigenous societies of Africa and Australia, intentionally painful genital surgery has been an integral part of such rites of passage.
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