page_title: Rite of passage
section_title: Coming of age
hierarchical_section_title: Rite of passage / Types and examples / Coming of age
caption_attribution_description: English: Bar Mitzvah.
context_page_description: A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society. In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage, a French term innovated by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de passage, "The Rites of Passage". The term is now fully adopted into anthropology as well as into the literature and popular cultures of many modern languages.
context_section_description: In various  tribal societies, entry into an age grade—generally gender-separated—(unlike an age set) is marked by an  initiation rite, which may be the crowning of a long and complex preparation, sometimes in retreat.
  Bar and Bat Mitzvah
  Breeching, when an infant is put into boy's clothing
  Coming of Age in Unitarian Universalism
  Completion of toilet training
  Débutante ball
  Dokimasia
  First menstruation, i.e. menarche
  Seclusion of girls at puberty
  Sevapuneru or Turmeric ceremony
  Graduation
  Okuyi in several West African nations
  Quinceañera
  Retirement
  Russefeiring in Norway
  Scarification and various other physical endurances
  Secular coming of age ceremonies for non-religious youngsters who want a rite of passage comparable to the religious rituals like confirmation
  Sweet Sixteen
  Wedding
  Walkabout
caption: Jewish boy reading a Torah scroll at his Bar Mitzvah, using a Yad
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