Ritualization may be associated with life events such as birth, coming of age, marriage and death.

The process is called 'ritualization', and there are two main theories about why it happens.

There's a feeling of native tribes, of ritualization - something much more powerful than words and music.

Ritualization may take place in order to make a signal more, or less, honest according to the type of signal.

Ritualization is also associated with the work of the religious studies scholar Catherine Bell.

The exaggerated version of the tail flicking movement may have undergone ritualization.

This transformation in the object is the result of ritualization or a change in cosmology.

Be that as it may, if signals are manipulatory, ritualization takes place because of a kind of evolutionary 'arms race'.

Ritualization 1914: formalised activities in bird behaviour, caused by inherited behaviour chains.

Structural ritualization theory, a concept related to the fields of sociology and social psychology, emphasizes embedded groups.

Ritualization helps distance reality from sexual obsession.

This ritualization of warfare, however, led to the belief that war was an acceptable way of solving disagreements.

Group exhibition was a kind of artistic response to the ritualization of funerals of public figures.

The other side of this ritualization is the threat of ostracism or excommunication for those who refuse to participate.

Instead we find, in the instructional and examination systems of most of these countries, an almost reptilian ritualization of the educational process.

The role of the church in this aspect of the ritualization of recognizing the death of an individual is an extremely important and positive one.

Furthermore inventing traditions is a process of formalization and ritualization, which contains created rituals and symbols.

This form of ritualization and symbols give the audience the ideal of an invented tradition, which has been in practice for a long period of time.

There are four categories under which we can see these codes of gender: the family, the feminine touch, the ritualization of subordination, and licensed withdrawal.

In the introduction, Goffman identifies three underlying themes in each essay: "ritualization, participation framework, and embedding."

Furthermore the structure defined by these alliances and risk-sharing measures were regulated by scheduling and the ritualization of time.

According to Allamel, Robertson developed a "complicated spatial ritualization" before he would allow visitors into his "sacred/profane inner space".

Ritualization is a behavior that occurs typically in a member of a given species in a highly stereotyped fashion and independent of any direct physiological significance.

In particular, he was stringently opposed to the excessive ritualization of religious practice, including that of the use of the Towers of Silence.

Only in our time, there was no good explanation, in astronomy or anything else, for the ritualization of those days rather than any others occurring about the same times."