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Browsing HTS Volume 57, Number 1&2 (2001) by Subject "Baptism and church membership"
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Van Staden, Piet
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)
Rituals are social mechanisms that have the very important function of effecting
transitions in social and/or religious roles and status. Such transitions can be
both internal and external in nature. Rituals should be ...