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challenging the traditional understanding of this concept. It was translated in
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Effervescence and Communitas: Processual Models of Ritual and Society in Emile Durkheim and Victor Turner. Dialectical Anthropology, 26, pp. 105.
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236:Case studies
203:Superstition
198:Soul dualism
108:Great Spirit
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1311:. See also
1285:dispensatio
1277:compensatio
890:Vaishnavism
821:Lutheranism
776:Anglicanism
460:René Girard
339:Ghost Dance
218:Transtheism
188:Sacred site
148:Nympholepsy
1586:Categories
1367:References
1347:communitas
1273:communitas
1256:communitas
1251:communitas
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1120:liminality
1112:Communitas
1108:Liminality
1072:Communitas
1012:ĆvetÄmbara
648:Böö mörgöl
430:Talal Asad
334:Cargo cult
163:Polytheism
158:Pilgrimage
143:Monotheism
128:Liminality
118:Initiation
113:Henotheism
88:Divination
78:Communitas
1592:Community
1281:immunitas
1260:immunitas
1151:that is.
1128:structure
1086:in which
1084:community
1007:Digambara
949:YazdĂąnism
929:Quranists
909:Ahmadiyya
895:Ayyavazhi
826:Methodism
791:Calvinism
771:Adventism
752:Vajrayana
737:Theravada
727:Pure Land
609:Religions
282:Bobohizan
193:Shamanism
103:Fetishism
63:Afterlife
1559: :
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1315:'s book
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1189:(1991).
1098:and the
1092:loanword
988:Orthodox
978:Haymanot
919:Mahdavia
885:Smartism
880:Shaktism
875:Shaivism
863:Hinduism
786:Baptists
722:Nichiren
717:Mahayana
710:Buddhism
698:Tengrism
573:Folklore
558:Journals
317:Slametan
277:Babaylan
272:Angakkuq
1132:secular
1019:Sikhism
1000:Jainism
983:Karaite
973:Hasidic
956:Judaism
851:Quakers
747:Tibetan
742:Tiantai
732:Shingon
668:KejawĂšn
594:Oceania
68:Animism
1297:Others
1279:, the
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1136:sacred
1088:people
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993:Reform
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939:Sufism
693:Shinto
683:Shindo
678:Noaidi
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617:Ethnic
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307:JhÄkri
266:Ritual
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902:Islam
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