Sentences with phrase «as initiation ceremonies»

Ceremonies, such as initiation ceremonies and corroborees, were important to the Butchulla people and their clans.

Still, highly rousing, traumatic rituals might still feature as initiation ceremonies, because people tend to be more committed to a religion and tolerant of its failings after paying a high price for entry.

Maybe this works as an initiation ceremony for students who, when they actually calculate how far off natural the globe really is, but for even somewhat innumerate less scientific public this is a hurdle that's not very easily taken.

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There was some kind of initiation ceremony of an unofficial student kind permitted by authority and defended by Luther many years later as a necessary bit of «experience».

There's a scene where one of the troopers gets tied naked to a bench as part of an initiation ceremony.