Ceremonies And Celebrations: Growing Up

Buddhist - Christian - Hindu - Jewish - Muslim - Sikh.

Take a look at the different ceremonies that the six major world faiths have to celebrate and acknowledge the different stages in a child's life. Find out how Jewish boys and girls celebrate coming of age, why young Hindu boys wear a sacred thread at their initiation ceremony and how Christians welcome young people into their faith.

First-hand accounts describe the special events in people's own words, while extracts from ancient religious texts show some of the origins of these important rites of passage.