liminality
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- Rites of passage
- Arnold van Gennep
- Victor Turner
- Liminality theory today
- Types
- In large-scale societies
- Depth psychology
- Examples of general usage
- Liminal festivals
- Liminal spaces in ritual and pilgrimage
- Liminality in migration and borderlands
- Digital/virtual liminality
- In rites
- In time
- Examples
- In religion
- Judeo-Christian worship
- Judeo-Christian ministry
- Of beings
- In places
- In folklore
- In ethnographic research
- In higher education
- In popular culture
- Novels and short stories
- Plays
- Films and TV shows
- Photography and Internet culture
- Music and other media
- Liminoid experiences
- Examples of liminoid experiences
- Sports
- Commercial flight
- See also
- Citations
- General sources
- External links
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In anthropology, liminality () is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. During a rite's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold" between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way (which completing the rite establishes).