Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week the entire faculty of the Stamboul Divinity School was summoned to conference with President Kemal. Secret though the meetings were, two important Kemal-changes loomed. One prospect was a renewal of the order to Latinize the Koran. The other, even more radical, was a slight Christianizing of Mohammedan ritual. Correspondents reported that this would include the wearing of shoes and slippers in the mosques instead of leaving them at the door as good Mohammedans have done since the prophet's day. Moreover, instead of kneeling on prayer rugs, the Kemalized Mohammedans may be seated in pews...
...fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew William Mellon?and have them say what was wrong with the farmer...
Timorous Christians had best not probe too deeply into Christian ritual. The flames of Christian candles may blend weirdly with druid fires. Behind a pure-throated Christian anthem may pipe the skirling music of an impish Pan. Mithras, the Persian sun god and onetime idol of the Roman army, was born on Dec. 25. The Easter egg was symbolic before the Christian Easter, symbolic of fertility...
Different only in images and ritual are the Easters of today−in Rome, where the Pope washes the feet of twelve bishops; in Russia, where Christ is supposed to walk through the land disguised as a beggar; in the Philippines, where there are gorgeous parades and cockfights; in Chester and Suffolk (England), where they play ball and dance to music; on Fifth Avenue, Main Street and in Stubbs Corners, where new clothes, pleased smiles and excited conversation are the Easter ritual of people who do not go to church...
...Another ritual the author witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman...