Editing Ritual (section)

===Performance===
The performance of ritual creates a [[theatrical]]-like frame around the activities, symbols and events that shape participant's experience and cognitive ordering of the world, simplifying the chaos of life and imposing a more or less coherent system of categories of meaning onto it.{{sfnp|Bell|1997|pp=[https://archive.org/details/ritualperspectiv00bell/page/n172 156]–157}} As Barbara Myerhoff put it, "not only is seeing believing, doing is believing."<ref>{{cite book |last=Myerhoff |first=Barbara |title=Secular Ritual |year=1997 |publisher=Van Gorcum |location=Amsterdam |page=223}}</ref>{{ISBN missing|date=November 2024}}

The theatricality of ritual may overlap with [[performance art]].<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1                 = Fischer-Lichte
| first1                = Erika
| title                 = Performance Art and Ritual: Bodies in performance 
| journal               = Theatre Research Internationa
| publication-date      = 1997
| volume                = 22
| issue                 = 1
| pages                 = 22–37
}}
in:
{{cite book
 |last1                = Fischer-Lichte
 |first1               = Erika
 |editor-last1         = Auslander
 |editor-first1        = Philip
 |year                 = 2005
 |orig-date            = 2003
 |chapter              = Performance Art and Ritual: Bodies in performance
 |title                = Performance: pt. 1. Identity and the self
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=7XNNL6Qc3Z4C
 |series               = Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Philip Auslander, ISBN 0415255112, 9780415255110, Volume 4
 |edition              = reprint
 |publication-place    = London
 |publisher            = Taylor & Francis
 |pages                = 228–250
 |isbn                 = 9780415255158
 |access-date          = 24 November 2024
}} 
</ref>