Template:RitualInfobox
Renders the right-hand infobox card for articles describing a religious, spiritual, or folk practice or ritual — as distinct from {{PhenomenonInfobox}}, which is for the claimed anomaly or phenomenon itself. Use this template when the article's subject is something people actively do (a ritual, rite, or ceremony), and use PhenomenonInfobox when the subject is the underlying claimed phenomenon that practice responds to.
For example: Exorcism — a ritual practice — uses this template. Possession — the claimed phenomenon the ritual responds to — uses {{PhenomenonInfobox}} instead.
Note: Requires the ParserFunctions extension for the conditionals.
Formatting note: The entire template body inside <includeonly> is written as a single continuous line. Introducing line breaks may cause MediaWiki to insert unwanted <p> tags or blank gaps when optional parameters are omitted — see the Copyrights policy and other Vault templates' documentation for the fuller explanation of this recurring bug.
Usage
{{RitualInfobox
|name=Exorcism
|image=Catholic_Exorcism.jpg
|caption=Illustration of a Catholic exorcism ritual.
|type=Religious/spiritual ritual
|traditions=Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and numerous other religious traditions
|purpose=To expel a possessing spirit, demon, or malevolent entity from a person, place, or object
|origin=Antiquity; practiced independently across numerous traditions
|first_practiced=Formally codified by the Catholic Church in 1614
|practitioners=Ordained clergy (Catholic); any observant believer (Islamic ruqyah, Pentecostal deliverance); rabbis (Jewish tradition)
|notable_case=Roland Doe (1949); Anneliese Michel (1976)
|status=Actively practiced
}}
Place this template at the very top of the article before any prose.
Parameters
- name — Required. Display name of the ritual/practice.
- image — Optional. Uploaded filename without the
File:prefix. - caption — Optional. Caption displayed beneath the image.
- type — Recommended. General classification of the practice.
- traditions — Recommended. Which religious or cultural traditions practice it.
- purpose — Recommended. What the ritual is intended to achieve.
- origin — Optional. Where/when the practice is believed to have originated.
- first_practiced — Optional. Earliest formal codification or documented instance.
- practitioners — Optional. Who is authorised or expected to perform the ritual.
- notable_case — Optional. Well-documented instances of the ritual being performed.
- status — Recommended. Current practice status.