Word: ritualization
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...makes it useful to boast about one's belief in Jesus and the Christian God, and political suicide to mention any faith that is focused in a different direction. Can you imagine a candidate for President glowingly referring to an uplifting feeling at a full-moon ritual or celebration of Tu B'shvat? Sadly, what really should be the valuable part of any faith - namely, the way one's integrity guides one to live it - is not something that needs advertising. Deborah Greymoon, Cascade, Colo...
...makes it useful to boast about one's belief in Jesus and the Christian God, and political suicide to mention any faith that is focused in a different direction. Can you imagine a candidate for President glowingly referring to an uplifting feeling at a full-moon ritual or celebration of Tu B'shvat? Sadly, what really should be the valuable part of any faith--namely, the way one's integrity guides one to live it--is not something that needs advertising. Deborah Greymoon, CASCADE, COLO...
Despite Faust’s contemporary focus, the baccalaureate ceremonies did not lack for ritual or religion. Cap-and-gown-clad seniors entered the church in procession and heard several of their classmates read passages from Confucius, the Bible, Hindu scripture, and the Quran...
When a group of men calling themselves Descendants of the Serbian Fighters From the 1912-20 Balkan Wars congregates for a ritual burning of the U.S. flag, most of the patrons of La Dolce Vita don't even bother to turn around. The morning sun is glorious on the terrace of the split-level bar overlooking the Ibar River, and the young men in black T-shirts are content to smoke their Marlboros and nurse their cokes, eyeing the more prosperous opposite bank of the river. They never cross the bridge, of course, because the Ibar marks the dividing line...
Despite Faust’s contemporary focus, the baccalaureate ceremonies did not lack for ritual or religion. Cap-and-gown-clad seniors entered the church in procession and heard several of their classmates read passages from Confucius, the Bible, Hindu scripture, and the Quran...