Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's social or sexual status.
Rites of passage are often ceremonies surrounding events such as childbirth, menarche or other milestones within puberty, weddings, menopause, and death.
Other rites include:
- Circumcision
- Coming of age
- Gembuku (元服) among the samurai
- Prom/Graduation
- Pederasty
- Rumspringa among the Amish
- Russ in Norway
- Vision quest in some Native American cultures
- Initiation rites
- Baptism
- First Communion and First Confession (in Catholicism)
- Confirmation
- Bar mitzvah
- Walkabout
- Freemasonry rituals
- Armed forces rites:
- U.S. Marine Crucible
- U.S. Army Victory Forge