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Ritualization
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The acquisition of special qualities by familiar practices or places; an analytical concept that need not separate ritual from everyday life.
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The concept investigates how practices become distinguished through repetition, space, organisation and meaning. Richard Bradley discussed domestic activities acquiring special qualities in prehistoric Europe.[7]
The concept alone does not establish that a practical element became religious, nor a universal house-to-temple sequence. Each application requires a dated context and alternative explanations.
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- Richard Bradley (2003). A Life Less Ordinary: the Ritualization of the Domestic Sphere in Later Prehistoric Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 13(1), 5–23. Abstract; ritualization in prehistoric Europe, used for methodological comparison rather than a universal sequence. Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Ritualization», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/ritualization