ritual

For in the United States it is believed, and with truth, that patriotism is a kind of devotion which is strengthened by ritual observance.

So far as I know there are, among the plantation hymns, no such remains of ancient ritual, mystical words whose meanings are unknown, no traces whatever of African tradition.

Rituals, Liturgies, Creeds, Hierarchies: all this is not religion; all this, were it dead as Odinism, as Fetishism, does not kill religion at all!

It is Stupidity alone, with never so many rituals, that kills religion.

Rituals, Liturgies, Credos, Sinai Thunder: I know more or less the history of these; the rise, progress, decline and fall of these.

All life is reduced into an unceasing ritual under the perpetual priestly surveillance of caste.

For, in Hinduism, it matters not on what god or ritual the Bhakthan places his faith, it has power to redeem him from all troubles.

Of the sixteen events in the life of a man, from birth to death, there is not one which is not viewed from a religious aspect, and is not accompanied by an elaborate ritual.

The ritual connected with the dead, which is called Shradda, is, among the higher classes, a most elaborate and complicated one, and lasts, with intermissions, for a year.

Men have always been prone to exalt ritual in proportion as they have neglected the eternal demands of conscience and the ethical foundation of character.

Even in matters of ritual, Brahmanism has always had its protestants, sectarians, and "come-outers."

In the matter of ritual in religion, Hinduism has little to learn from, and has much to suggest to, western ecclesiastics.

There were over twenty separate so-called secret temperance societies, each with a different ritual and constitution, with subordinate organizations scattered all over the land.

On the other hand, his wife or daughter will make of shopping a kind of ritual.

For older adults to age well, especially for those living with dementia, food and eating rituals are particularly important.

Feminist hackers really value sharing practices and coming together through technologies, spaces and rituals (Wuschitz, 2014).

Place is marked by situated co-presence and symbolic attachment, created through shared rituals and practices.

Even though modern styles and techniques have been introduced, religious myths, legends, and rituals remain important sources of inspiration.

The painting process involves specific rituals followed by traditional painters.

Hijikata was curious about the choreographer Katherine Dunham, who was initiated in the rituals of Haitian vodou in 1950.