One piece of work on university fraternities showed that the more humiliating the initiation ritual for a fraternity, the more likely students were to value joining it.

A spiritual teacher trains and mentors the shaman for years before he or she completes an initiation ritual.

In tantric school, these mantras are believed to have supernatural powers, and they are transmitted by a preceptor to a disciple in an initiation ritual.

His contributions to the sorority include drafting the constitution, and writing the initiation ritual.

As an initiation ritual, he was obliged to surrender something of great value to him: his name, and the reputation that came with it.