Rights Of Passage

Question 1

The birth ceremony represents what?

Answer 1

This represents cleanliness and symbolises new life.

Question 2

Muslims prepare a ceremony called?

Answer 2

Name giving ceremony

Question 3

How do the Muslims prepare the baby?

Answer 3

Washing + shaving babies head

Question 4

What is the call to prayer called?

Answer 4

Adhaan

Question 5

A Christian babies ceremony is called a?

Answer 5

Baptism

Question 6

How do Anglicans and Catholics perform a baptism.

Answer 6

Water is poured over the babies forehead

Question 7

What does the water being poured represent?

Answer 7

Washing away of the original sin , new life as a Christian

Question 8

Christian babies are normally named after?

Answer 8

Saints

Question 9

What is done to Hindu babies?

Answer 9

Washed, given ‘sweet” to taste, AUM is written on their tongue with a golden pen which is dipped in honey.

Question 10

What happens when a Hindu baby turns one years old?

Answer 10

Head is shaved, symbolically : removes evil from past lives.

Question 11

A Jewish babies initiation is called?

Answer 11

Brit Milah

Question 12

A Jewish boy goes through a “” during his Brit Milah?

Answer 12

Circumcision

Question 13

Jewish families drink what to celebrate?

Answer 13

Wine

Question 14

How do Buddhist monks celebrate a welcoming ceremony?

Answer 14

Monks go to the house and chant and bless over the baby while a sacred thread is tied to the babies wrist.

Question 15

What is a sacred thread believed to do?

Answer 15

Welcome a spirit which looks after the baby

Question 16

What is the name of a traditional African ceremony?

Answer 16

Imbeleko or ingubo

Question 17

How is ingubo celebrated?

Answer 17

The babies aunt carries the baby in the kraal, the father speaks with the ancestors with the baby to bring it into the community.

Question 18

What is sacrificed?

Answer 18

White goat

Question 19

What is done with the roasted goat meat?

Answer 19

Brushed against the lips of the baby

Question 20

What else is done with the goat?

Answer 20

The hide is tanned for the baby to sleep on especially when sick.

Question 21

How old are Muslims when they begin religous education?

Answer 21

Seven

Question 22

Why is seven a significant age?

Answer 22

Can distinguish between right and wrong

Question 23

When do Muslims complete their religous education?

Answer 23

Thirteen

Question 24

When is the religious education considered complete?

Answer 24

Able to read the qur’an in Arabic

Question 25

What are the 3 catholic initiations that children complete?

Answer 25

Baptism, confirmation, Eucharist

Question 26

What are the 3 ceremonies known as together?

Answer 26

Sacraments of initiation

Question 27

What is the name of the ceremony that Hindi boys partake in?

Answer 27

Upanayana

Question 28

After the sacred thread is tied, where do Hindu boys go?

Answer 28

To live with a spiritual guru who will help and guide him

Question 29

What do Jewish boys celebrate on their 13th birthdays?

Answer 29

Bar mitzvah where they become an adult member of the Jewish community.

Question 30

Jewish girls go through a bat mitzvah at which age?

Answer 30

12th birthday where from then on its is the girls responsibility to carry out their duties to their family.

Question 31

What do religions have to introduce the birth of a new baby?

Answer 31

Ceremony

Question 32

What is the Buddhist initiation?

Answer 32

They enter the monastery to become a monk or nun. They have to be at least 8 years old.