Word: ritualizes
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...gods have) always been defined by otherness. But for just as long, humans have feared that the alienation was increasing. "Why, O Lord, do You stand aloof?" cried the Psalmist, eventually concluding that the reason was human disobedience and sin. By Jesus' time, Jewish temple ritual included regular sin sacrifices freighted with hopes for reconciliation, or atonement, with God. (The word's original English meaning of unity is evident in its three syllables: at-one-ment.) By around A.D. 57, when the Apostle Paul wrote the New Testament book Romans, it was clear that Christians would want to reconfigure reconciliation...
...revival in 1951, the Cotswold Olimpicks have been a quieter, more bucolic affair, albeit imbued with what Daeschner, 34, a Colorado-born U.K. resident, describes as the "secular trinity that made Britain what it is today: Land, Booze and Patriotism." In truth, not all of the time-ingrained rituals in True Brits really count as sport: horn dancing (a kind of line dance for aristocrats toting 1,000-year-old reindeer horns), Pope burning (in effigy, of course) and the Darkie Day revels in Padstow, Cornwall (think merry English minstrels in blackface) all defy the march of time and political...
...ritual seemed to have worked since the blocking group, which also consists of Stefanie L. Botelho ’07, Julia M. Chandler ’07, Gayatri S. Datar ’07, Maura A. Graul ’07 and Kathleen E. Walro ’07, will live in Lowell House next year...
...blocking group from Canaday lamented its fate as it watched its housing prospects sink along with its makeshift boat. These six females, like many other first-years last night, were participating in a pre-housing ritual in hopes of skewing the Freshman Lottery, which assigns upperclass housing to first-years, in their favor...
...We’re going to all the Houses because the group has mixed opinions and whoever wants the House can perform a ritual,” Voith said...