organized ceremonial

Scope Note

Systematization of religious ritual; ceremonial calendar (e.g., fixed and movable religious holidays, rest days, and festivals); detailed description of the ceremonies regularly associated with each (e.g., participants, ceremonial attire and paraphernalia, prescribed succession of rites, accompanying music and dancing, symbolism); church and temple services; religious dramas and spectacles; notions of propitious and unlucky days for ceremonies; etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 790 ecclesiastical organization

Related Terms

• 221 annual cycle
• 240 agriculture
• 342 dwellings
• 517 leisure time activities
• 527 rest days and holidays
• 530 art
• 541 spectacles
• 561 age stratification
• 585 nuptials
• 622 community heads
• 630 territorial organization
• 643 chief executive
• 720 war
• 755 magical and mental therapy
• 764 burial practices and funerals
• 780 religious practices
• 805 ordering of time
• 852 ceremonial during infancy and childhood
• 880 adolescence, adulthood, and old age