Home›Sources›Wikipedia: LiminalitySourcesWikipedia: LiminalityEncyclopedia ArticleCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextSociety and Culture Atlas. "Wikipedia: Liminality." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://society.interactiveatlas.org/sources/wikipedia-liminality.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextSociety and Culture Atlas. (n.d.). Wikipedia: Liminality. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://society.interactiveatlas.org/sources/wikipedia-liminalityCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{societyandcultureatlas-wikipedia-liminality, author = {Society and Culture Atlas}, title = {Wikipedia: Liminality}, year = {2026}, url = {https://society.interactiveatlas.org/sources/wikipedia-liminality}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingThe English-language Wikipedia article on liminality, covering the concept's development by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner and the scope debate over Turner's own restriction of the term.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (23 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationPublisherWell-attestedWikipediaURLWell-attestedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiminalitySource TypeWell-attestedEncyclopediaAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested3Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia article used for standard, uncontested definitional and historical claims.SourcesWikipedia: Liminalitytier 3WikipediaArticle, self-citation: entity-descriptionQuote, Article, self-citation: entity-descriptionthe quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.View the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (23 claims)This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSocial Theory and Concepts, 10 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 5 general references.Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.Well-attested13Open QuestionsDoes liminality, as Victor Turner himself used the term, apply only to small-scale tribal ritual settings, with his own neologism "liminoid" reserved for comparable features of the modern world, or can the term liminality itself be extended to concrete historical and institutional transitions, as AgSocial Theory and ConceptsLiminalitySourcesWikipedia: LiminalityScholarly debate1Social Theory and ConceptsLiminalityHolds2Social Theory and ConceptsLiminalityConnected1Open QuestionsDoes liminality, as Victor Turner himself used the term, apply only to small-scale tribal ritual settings, with his own neologism "liminoid" reserved for comparable features of the modern world, or can the term liminality itself be extended to concrete historical and institutional transitions, as AgGeneral References6Open QuestionsDoes liminality, as Victor Turner himself used the term, apply only to small-scale tribal ritual settings, with his own neologism "liminoid" reserved for comparable features of the modern world, or can the term liminality itself be extended to concrete historical and institutional transitions, as AgSocial Theory and ConceptsLiminalityComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year