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Editing/expanding article: "Ritual Violence" under the "Religious Violence" article
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Expansion will include a more precise definition or understanding of what constitutes ritual violence, especially as it pertains to children. Because of the occurrence of ritual violence in different locales and cultures, various examples of the different types of ritual violence will be provided in order to better define this category, as well as to provide some perspective into the practice around the world. (On a more general note, it may be worth discussing in the talk page plans to make ritual violence its own article or to place it under a more directly related article)

Illicit or controversial acts can only be such if they are rooted within some cultural context, so in order to be more comprehensive, we will cover some part of each instance of ritual violence's history. The practice itself will then also be discussed, including how it was/is practiced. Since the history is included to contextualize the ostensibly controversial example of ritual violence, it would follow that we would then also cover legal cases and other efforts to manage the practice by society or others, where such a phenomenon may exist. There are many facets of society including the media, the children's own reactions, and campaigns mounted by concerned members of society that all affect each other and the practice itself. The ritual violence category will include subcategories to account for these important dimensions.

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Talk Page Post:

I am considering developing the ritual violence section generally, but also to include several instances of ritual violence and some other relevant information. These are some of the practices that I am looking at, as well as the sources that I will be using to bolster the section. Any advice would be appreciated.

Subheadings:

History of ritual violence/individual practices

Description of the practice itself

Legal responses to the ritual violence

Media representations

Social responses

Relevant sources/examples:

http://srsg.violenceagainstchildren.org/sites/default/files/documents/docs/InCo_Report_15Oct.pdf

Sara Scott’s book, The politics and experience of ritual abuse: beyond disbelief

Female genital mutilation

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FactSheet23en.pdf

Food taboos

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711054/

Gang initiation

https://people.missouristate.edu/michaelcarlie/what_i_learned_about/gangs/join_a_gang.htm

Marriage by abduction or rape