Religious indoctrination

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Religious indoctrination refers to customary rites of passage for the indoctrination of persons into a particular religion and its extended community.

Terms generally vary by culture, custom, and language, though some terms, like "baptism," are pluralist and applicable across several faiths. Baptism itself is a water rite wherein a person is (or submerged) in water, which symbolises their immersion into faith, as defined by the associated religion. Whereas —similar or equivalent to the Islamic concept of "Submission"— immersion represents the complete acceptance of the faith, the passage of the rite itself represents the complete assimilation of the subject into the religion and, where religion is closely bound to ethnic constraints, to its associated social culture.