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rite
1. a formal act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious ceremonies
2. a particular body of such acts or procedures, esp of a particular Christian Church
3. a Christian Church


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Living Passages for the Whole Family: Celebrating Rites of Passage from Birth to Adulthood" is a year by year examination of peoples' traditional rites of passage such as birthdays, bar'mitzvahs and secular versions of festivals such as that.
Living Passages For The Whole Family by Small Press Bookwatch
From the bird's eye view, to the distortion of the figure, to the feeling of alienation that Silke creates, Rites of Passage asks us to observe the effects of not only a dysfunctional society, but the dysfunction in our own lives.
Rites of passage by Berens, Silke / Sister Namibia
 
 
 
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