Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reformed, propelled in the 18th Century by the German Jew, Moses Mendelssohn, to bring his coreligionists out of their spiritual seclusion into the current cultural life, stresses the national culture of the country of which the adherents are citizens. Its ritual is quite up to date. From the Temple pulpits on Sunday morning (this shift of the Sabbath solemnities is a jibing with convenience) the congregations hear lectures hung on current news topics, as do those of many Christian churches. Yet one must note that the pulpit sideshows so currently prevalent are largely eschewed in Jewish houses of worship...
...organizations?the Reformed by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis; the Conservative by the United Synagogue; the Orthodox by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Union of Orthodox Congregations. All these honestly adhere to a fundamental spiritual unity. But in interpretation and in ritual they often hold bitterly apart with a stiff-neckedness persisting from the time of Exodus, when Moses smashed the first stone copy of the Ten Commandments in a rage...
...cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...
...ritual: "The champion church of the South [for the number of baptisms] ducked 400 [the past five years] . . . So many darkies have become Baptists of late that the other evangelical denominations are growing alarmed. The Baptists' dogmas and ceremonies appeal powerfully to the African mind, as they do to the mind of the low-caste white...
Later the Caliph rode on horseback through the streets of Tetuan and muttered a ritual prayer before such of the numberless holy places of the city as were not considered worthy of an actual visit. Before the mosques of Sidi Ali Raisuli, Saidi, and Sidi Mohammed El Hach, he descended from his horse and was elaborately welcomed amid complicated ceremonies during which several bulls were sacrificed. Finally he reviewed the native troops amid much rejoicing...