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I won’t address the general question, but often times the honors society inductions come real close to actually calling to a deity.
From phi alpha with their candle lit incantations(lot with a flame from the mother works piece flame in Snowdonia National park in Wales) to the ritual of the obligation of the iron ring at the graduation for Canadian engineers.
There are plenty of weird ceremonies at many graduations and I would question many of them if I weren’t trolling so hard laughing when I hearing about them