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Rites of Passage
Self Formation in Liminal Space
From: The Power Manual
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Rites of Passage, highlights Victor Turner’s thinking on liminality, the space of transformation, the ritual of transitioning from one state to another. One leaves behind previous identities, practices, and routines to make room for a more expansive set. Rites of passage begin with a threshold — a challenge one cannot meet without transcending one’s current idea of oneself. They show up differently in simple and complex societies. In simple societies, rites of passage show up as rituals that function to compensate for the unfairness in the system, as all systems are simply current stable states of power, or status quo, inherent in which is difference or conflict. In complex societies, difference and conflict show up as antistructure, or social critiques of injustice and leisure, or entertainment. In both simple and complex societies, the social role of rites of passage or liminality is to relieve the anxiety of differences in status.
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Cyndi Suarez
Cyndi Suarez works with leaders in nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and social movements, including most recently the Movement for Black Lives. She helps social change leaders move from struggle to flow by helping them build elegant ideas and structures. She has a MS in Nonprofit Management from Southern New Hampshire University, and studied Feminist Theory at the New School for Social Research. Suarez is Senior Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly, the leading nonprofit journal. She lives in Boston, MA.
