Naming ceremonies in 2000s: Livestream reveals · 528

What is the difference between baptism and christening? In everyday English they overlap; some churches treat christening as the naming-and-welcome aspect of infant baptism. Local usage varies. Do all religions have a naming rite? Many do: aqeeqah and tahnīk traditions in Islam, brit and naming in Judaism, Hindu namakarana, Sikh Naam Karan, and others. Forms differ. None are destiny science here.

돌 is a first-birthday rite; the name is often already registered. It can still be a public name-and-child theatre, sometimes with 돌림자 already chosen as kin design. Because rites encode theology, kin and hospitality. Depth is not the same as legal force. Are secular naming days a real thing?

Yes — humanist and civil ceremonies exist in several countries as a non-religious public welcome. Should I pick a name that “fits” the rite? Saints’ names fit some christenings; other rites have other pools. That is liturgy, not luck. For centuries the church book was the file. Then the state took the file and left the church the theatre.