ritual

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ritual involves not only religious worships and activities, but also inaugurations, funerals, and even hand-shakings.

performance theorist Richard Schechner divided human ritualization into three categories: social ritual (ritualistic activities in everyday society), religious ritual (the rites and celebrations traditionally studied by anthropologists), and aesthetic ritual (forms and includes ritualistic theater works ).

over time, what used to be considered as religious ritual could evolve into social rituals and aesthetic rituals.