Word: ritualization
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...between religion and recreation can be a fuzzy one, since in so many religions--from ancient Dionysian worship to modern-day Brazilian Candomble and storefront Pentecostalism--the best way to contact the deity or deities is to get up and dance and sing and shout. The climax of the ritual celebration was not a drunken stupor but ecstatic union with the gods...
After tourist season ends, another Math 55 ritual begins. Students may have more room to sit down, but the next few weeks will be anything but comfortable. It’s a game of “Survivor”: Outwit, Outplay, Outmath. Before the fifth Monday of the term, students who can’t seem to stay in the game start dropping like flies...
...oaken interior of Sanders Theater crackles with intensity as prominent pacifists lecture on the futility of violence in solving the nation’s problems. The event is one in a series of anti-administration rallies and demonstrations that are quickly becoming a weekly ritual at Harvard. But this late ’60s scene is happening almost three decades too early. The date is April 18, 1940. A year later, the Pearl Harbor bombing and the country’s entry into the Second World War would remind the United States and its citizens of the impossibility...
Olupona, whose research has spanned from African ritual practices to animal symbolism, is now studying the wide array of religious practices of African immigrants in the United States over the past four decades...
...even sure I want an engagement ring. I find the exchange of wedding rings a poignant ritual - because there's a sense of equality, or at least reciprocity (which is how I envision marriage). Since women don't usually make a similar extravagant purchase for their mates, I find diamond engagement rings so one-sided. They're like dowries for the modern man. The bigger the ring, the better off he is and the more he can provide for his wife-to-be. At least an old-fashioned dowry given by the bride's family was generally discussed privately...