Rites of passage

How to embody your fictional culture through its transition ceremonies.

Rites of PassageWriting in French in 1909, the European comparative sociologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957) delineated in Les rites de passage (published in English in 1960) a structure for transformative ritual practices he considered universal and common to all cultures.

William Golding: Rites of passage. Published by Faber & Faber, 1980. Jacket illustration by Cathie Felstead. First edition.

Rites of Passage: Coming-of-age rituals from around the world.

Australian Aboriginal Rites of Passage

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The central theme of my paintings is about finding a personal sense order in a confusing, chaotic, and meaningless world. The lead players of these paintings, naively, and in the moral clarity of youth, yearn for a state of perfection. In seeking for it, they come to the boundaries of mortality. Such an ideal state is not of this world, though it can be glimpsed by the mind, as if across a chasm.The paintings are made with oil paint, and the drawings are done in charcoal.

Rites of Passage is the first book in Golding’s ‘A Sea Trilogy’. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot […]

Sociologists have identified three phases that constitute a proper rite of passage: separation, transition, and re-incorporation.