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Summarize the application of van Gennep's analysis of rites of passage to the Eleusinian Mysteries as it was presented in the Eleusinian Mysteries lecture and PowerPoint.

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Rites of Passage are practiced in small-scale societies; which temporarily dissolve or reverse social hierarchies, or turn insiders into outsiders, or vice versa and bring social change in them.

Step-by-step explanation:

Van Gennep's Rites of Passage can be best explained by the 3 passages of rites which are are a form of ceremonial act accompanying a person going from one social space to another, and which connects to different phases in life, such as birth rites, death rites marriage rites, etc. They are

Preliminal rites: the rites of separation from a previous world,

Liminal (or threshold) rites: those executed during the transitional stage Post-liminal rites: the ceremonies of incorporation into the new world

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