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...others point to women who have formed separatist "Women-Church" worship, a New Age blend of feminist, ecological, neopagan and Christian elements. One book offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name...
...does cover the artist's working life: about nine years. But since it aims to present the deceased as the black Chatterton of Postmodernism -- the "marvellous boy," cut off in his prime by a drug overdose at the age of 27 -- it more resembles a parody of a funeral rite, performed over a slender talent encased in a sarcophagus grossly too large for it. There had to be room in that box for the 1980s as well...
More than just a race, the Head of the Charles is a sweaty, beery rite of passage, eagerly anticipated by some Harvard students and dreaded by others...
...category of sexuality. Instead, the behavior has been explained away as a phase. For instance, teenagers sometimes experiment with both male and female partners on the way to establishing their sexual identity. Among Sambia Highlanders in Papua New Guinea, boys practice oral sex with one another as a formal rite of passage toward manhood and adult heterosexuality. Dual sexuality has also been seen as a pragmatic response, a way to fill a sexual need when passion is thwarted by culture and circumstance, such as imprisonment. Mixing between men and women before marriage is strictly limited in some Muslim societies...
...hysterically nationalistic social deviants; I was now surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants in a frenzy." But even black humor bows out as Buford's tale of unrelenting, mindless violence and moronic patriotism unfolds, and the "lad culture" with its bloated code of maleness centered on the Saturday rite of soccer is revealed in all its crude nihilism...