Word: ritualization
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...allure of the culture. "Catholicism has been one of the most homoerotic of widely available modern cultures," writes Mark Jordan, a professor of religion at Emory University, in his book The Silence of Sodom. He is referring to the shared residency of unmarried men and the Eucharistic ritual "in which an all-male clergy sacrifices male flesh before images of God as an almost naked...
...klunker-star Steven Seagal, her mother is Miyako Fujitani, a famous aikido instructor, and their offspring has switched from using brawn to brains to get ahead. After six ditsy roles in movies, Fujitani wrote her first novel, Touhimu, in 1999. It was turned into the aloof and alienated film Ritual, which received an award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokyo's 13th International Film Festival?a double triumph for Fujitani, since she played the lead. Now, she's busy trying to finish her second novel. "It's tough," she confides over a glass of rye whiskey in a Tokyo...
...might not have the rich depth of Charles Nicholl's Borderlines, the hapless humor of William Sutcliffe's Are You Experienced, or the sublime poetry of Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in their Yage Letters. Still, if you're totally spent on a beach this summer yearning to feel that ritual spirit yet again, The Promised Land won't take you all the way there, but it's not a bad trip...
...such ungodly speeds. As I fought an endless battle with the wind to keep my head from snapping backwards, I found myself often overcompensating and sending my head lunging forward into Stith’s. Resembling some sort of primitive form of Neanderthal communication, this inane head-banging ritual continued the entire length of Storrow Drive...
...Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America,” served tea in his section about the Boston Tea Party, but he doesn’t think that sipping tea will transmit history like a coursepack can. “I think reenactments have a place as a national or cultural ritual, yet they possess immense limitations as teaching tools,” he says...