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==Religious rituals== | ==Religious rituals== | ||
In religion, a ritual can comprise the prescribed outward forms of performing the ''cultus,'' or cult, of a particular observation within a religion or religious denomination. Although ritual is often used in context with worship performed in a church, the actual relationship between any religion's doctrine and its ritual(s) can vary considerably from organized religion to non-institutionalized spirituality, such as ayahuasca shamanism as practiced by the Urarina of the upper Amazon.<ref>Dean, Bartholomew 2009 ''Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia'', Gainesville: University Press of Florida ISBN 978-081303378 [http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=DEANXS07]</ref> Rituals often have a close connection with reverence, thus a ritual in many cases expresses reverence for a | In religion, a ritual can comprise the prescribed outward forms of performing the ''cultus,'' or cult, of a particular observation within a religion or religious denomination. Although ritual is often used in context with worship performed in a church, the actual relationship between any religion's doctrine and its ritual(s) can vary considerably from organized religion to non-institutionalized spirituality, such as ayahuasca shamanism as practiced by the Urarina of the upper Amazon.<ref>Dean, Bartholomew 2009 ''Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia'', Gainesville: University Press of Florida ISBN 978-081303378 [http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=DEANXS07]</ref> Rituals often have a close connection with reverence, thus a ritual in many cases expresses reverence for a deity or idealized state of humanity. | ||
==Social functions== | ==Social functions== | ||