How to pronounce “rites” in English

They're like rites of passage.

So initiation rites are very, very important for bringing young males into this sort of group that

The actual rites that I'm talking about, the rites that I'm talking about, are what guide the whole nation.

We looked at the rites of passage, because that is the most common in society today-- a marriage, a graduation, a bar mitzvah.

That's what rites of passage told me.

used for rites over the ages and built over the ages, that they'd actually been built and abandoned in this very short time period.

-When a culture doesn't provide formal rites of passage or initiations, then you get usually destructive versions of it.

But what about those individually specific rites of passage?

Ideally we have Catholic confirmation as rites of passage that are potent, that actually do what they're designed to do, to grow you into that man you

The way you find out is through initiation rites.

We believe that the continued usage of these ceremonies and rites ensures not only our commitment as individuals,

But our culture, our rites, our ways of life are directed to building relationships

So those are just some of the lessons that rites of passage teaches.

So there's lots of different forms of rites of passage that still exist around the world, these are just some of them.

A few years ago I made a film called Rites of Love and Math with a wonderful French film director, Reine Graves.

So that's how the idea of the film Rites of Love and Math came about.

that holds up my life along with so-called men's work and this rites of passage work.

So what I'm wondering is how do you ensure that these rites of passage-- in some ways--

This is Palou himself, doing last rites.

For me, the best tools, the best ceremony and rites that I went through were the sweat lodge and sun

And so for the health of the community and the health of the individual, they created rites of passage ceremonies.

You talked about-- in the film-- regionally, culturally specific rites of passage.

There's just a lot of really tribal groupish stuff, initiation rites, a lot of weird stuff we do that makes perfect sense if you think that our genes came down to us in part by

We planned out of 10 days to Kandla, where Ritesh Sidhwani, the director, he had a bungalow there.

Also, I have been doing a special episode on Hangul Day for five consecutive years along with Korean New Year and Thanksgiving Day to talk about Korean traditional rites

Even better, the math group that Shannon joins, one of the rites of passage is they climb telephone poles.

And what that is, is when a young girl turns 15, she goes through rites of passage similar to a bar mitzvah.

And then, the biggest question I've asked myself is, are rites of passage and mentorship the missing link in youth development?

So there's three main stages, really, of rites of passage.

To get us there, all that's needed, really, are community-based, culturally-tailored rites of passage and mentorship.

"Through the flow of ages and the rise and fall of cultures, a secret codex has been inscribed with the tales and stories, the rites and rituals

In the 80s, somebody said--and it got bounced all over the place--that there were 50 thousand human sacrifices a year in satanic rites.