Secular coming-of-age ceremonies, sometimes called civil confirmations, are ceremonies arranged by organizations that are secular, which is to say, not...

Jugendfeier (Youth ceremony) is a secular coming of age ceremony practised by German 14-year-olds. It originated among the secular societies in the 19th...

stand in front of the school and declare their goals for the future. Guan Li, the Chinese coming-of age ceremony Secular coming-of-age ceremony In premodern...

drinking age Legal smoking age Marriageable age Mature minor doctrine Secular coming-of-age ceremony Voting age Youth rights Youth suffrage Youth Amendments...

movement gained support in Germany during the 19th century. The secular coming of age ceremony Jugendweihe was developed in the 1850s, and Ludwig Büchner founded...

(the Day of the Republic), 7 October, was the anniversary of the creation of the GDR. The Jugendweihe was a secular coming-of-age ceremony which replaced...

Canada, the United Kingdom and some states of the US. According to Dally Messenger III secular ceremonies are "roadmap" influences which lead to an acceptable...

various other physical endurances Secular coming of age ceremonies for non-religious youngsters who want a rite of passage comparable to the religious...

participate in a Jugendweihe, a secular "coming of age" ceremony which in the German Democratic Republic had some of the features of a church confirmation. He...

Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while...

admission to higher education. She did not participate in the secular coming-of-age ceremony Jugendweihe, however, which was common in East Germany. Instead...

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mitzvah (gender neutral), is a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism. According to Jewish law, before children reach a certain age, the parents are responsible...

of commerce, which had been founded in 1899, was dissolved in 1934 “under approval of all present” and the local Jugendleite (secular coming-of-age ceremony)...

France, early ceremonies of the adoubement were purely secular and indicated a young noble coming of age. Around 1200, these ceremonies began to include...

attorney-general Lionel Murphy. The aim of the celebrancy program was to authorise persons to officiate at secular ceremonies of substance, meaning and dignity...

services, such as non-religious weddings, funerals, child namings, coming of age ceremonies and other rituals. Some humanist celebrants are accredited by humanist...

Middle Ages. Short Oxford History of Europe. Oxford University Press. pp. 109–134. ISBN 978-0-19-873163-4. Lightbown, Ronald W. (1978). Secular Goldsmiths'...

consecrations) — secular coming-of-age ceremonies akin to Christian confirmation which all young people were encouraged to attend. The number of christenings...

Mirror of Secular Thought. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004106956. Heelas, Paul (1996). The New Age Movement: Religion, Culture and Society in the Age of Postmodernity...

the "Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture". The Peretz Centre runs a two-year bnei mitzvah program, a coming-of-age ceremony for boys and girls, that...

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the...

for concerts in summer, and for secular coming-of-age ceremonies. wikisource.org King Olaf Trygvason's Saga Saga of Harald Sigurdsson, c. 45 at "Snorre...

commemorate the 220th anniversary of La Barre's execution. Thanks to this, the ceremony has once again become a model secular gathering. The monument has been...

several discrete rituals b. The Bar mitzvah is a coming of age ceremony for Jewish boys at the age of 13, where they read scripture from the Torah in the...

reaches the age of reason or early adolescence. When an adult is baptized, the sacrament is conferred immediately after baptism in the same ceremony. Among...

decorations, and medals of Japan are given according to rank, and the coming-of-age ceremony ends. A short time after the ceremony, people visit mausoleums...

Funerary practices in different cultures A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant...

naturalisation (citizenship) ceremonies; becoming a teenager (coming of age) and other ceremonies. Celebrancy – description of the profession of celebrancy. Lionel...

funerals, child namings, coming of age ceremonies, and other rituals. Humanist baby naming – some humanists perform a naming ceremony as a non-religious alternative...