Developed into a ritual.

present participle of ritualize

A ritualization.

Any form of physical, sexual, or psychological mistreatment that involves the use of ritual.

plural of ritual abuse

One of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.

(Christianity) able to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and administer the sacraments of two different sui iuris churches (of a priest)

The practice of holding human beings in slavery for religious purposes

Any form of physical, sexual, or psychological mistreatment that involves the use of satanic ritual; the subject of a moral panic in the 1980s and 1990s.

One of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.