Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY evening the Church of the Covenant in Boston was the scene of an extraordinary spectacle. Hundreds of people stood in lines, jammed the pews, and knelt in the aisles of that grand and holy edifice, seeking an odd mixture of sacrament and blasphemy, tradition and revolution, ritual and riot--in a word...
Instead, the script drops many heavy-handed hints of incestuous longings between father and daughter and visits much trendy brutality on the poor prince for daring to imagine that blonds might be more fun. There is also a nasty ritual defloration sequence involving the girl he was supposed to marry before Mia came along...
...like becoming a tribal elder in sciences," Vogt, who received the honor for his study of the ritual and ceremony of the Maya Indians in southern Mexico, said yesterday...
Still, the religious attitudes of the main characters do not necessarily reflect Murphy's. The Marine gunnery sergeant, the Associate Justice and Declan Walsh himself a11 express some distress at the new Roman Catholic ritual, with its abandonment of the old music and the Latin. Murphy and his wife Terry (their two daughters now live in other parts of the country) regularly go to an English-language folk Mass...
...souls but a spiritual community; its sectarian divisions, as well as the man-made barriers of race and class that Islam opposes, dissolve dramatically at the hajj. Once a pilgrimage made mostly by Muslims of the Middle East and North Africa, the hajj has become a universal and unifying ritual. For those who have taken part in it, the hajj acts as a constant testament to Islam's vision of a divine power that transcends all human frailties...