A Sense of Community by Rituals "In Christ, we who are many form one body and each member belongs to all the others"(Romans 12.5). From that definition, human's innate need to bond together is apparent, providing the basis of a community. In the religious sense, a community can be described as the interaction between a group of individuals. All communities need distinguishing factors that not only unite the members in thought but also in action. Rituals within the community are traits that provide just that. They help characterize and unite the group within the organization. In Religious Worlds, William Paden describes the term ritual as a "form of expressive action." "It says things that cannot be said as effectively in any other medium. It focuses, displays, enacts, creates, remembers and transforms" (Paden 120). Rituals, whether they are directly i....

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