Sentences with phrase «death rituals as»

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A ritual meal within the early Jesus communities, such as those prescribed in Didache 10 and 9, with no paschal imagery, no Last Supper tradition, and no connection with the death of Jesus.

Not only loss of breath but loss of blood means death, and this fact was seized upon by the early Hebrews, as by other peoples, as the basis of an elaborate superstructure of religious ritual.

As members of the predominantly white, middle - class, law - abiding majority, we condone their ritual deaths in order to affirm our own «humanity» and identification with the existing social order.

The motive was the public rendering of thanksgiving / praise to God by the person commissioning the ritual in the presence of relatives and friends for God's signal intervention in saving the man (and his family, if the occasion called forit) from death in war or in some similar grave danger such as famine.

In the New Testament adaptation of this ritual, Jesus at the Last Supper looks forward to the salvation which he believes (as human) that God will grant in the death he realises as imminent.

What, in part, assisted the transition to metaphor was the way in which the death of the hero for the city came to be construed by the Greeks and the Romans as equivalent to ritual sacrifice, and indeed as rendering the hero himself a fit recipient of sacrifices in turn.

To the concept of the king as a being, in his religious significance, apart from and above his people, we have numerous allusions: Jeremiah refers to public lamentations at the death of a king such as clearly relate them to the ritual of the fertility - god (Jer.

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

Outside the Jewish faith, the concept of an annual ritual to remember a loved one's death can be as simple as reading a book or having a family meal.

In short this passage, like the first, does not oblige us to suppose that St Thomas believed the Passion and Death of Christ to be made present in any other way than as a sign, or ritual image.

Once in Spain, women living in captivity and were forced into prostitution under threats of black magic rituals, as well as by physical violence, rape and death threats to the girls themselves and their families in Nigeria.

It was then intentionally blunted, probably as part of the funerary rites, which the researchers have suggested may have been a ritual act symbolising the death of the individual.

Early in the film, her brother is required to solidify his position as king in ritual combat following the death of his father.

Supernatural events are depicted, such as a ritual with the god of death that involves bloodletting (briefly shown), an attempted human sacrifice, corpses being raised from the dead, and characters having the life sucked from their bodies.

As the story opens, the annual ritual of the Hunger Games is beginning; each district must supply a «tribute» of a young woman and man, and these 24 finalists must fight to the death in a forested «arena» where hidden cameras capture every move.

Along the way, they delve into such essential questions as whether humans are biologically compelled to make myths; what is the evolutionary connection between religious ecstasy and sexual orgasm; what do Near Death Experiences reveal about the nature of spiritual phenomena; and how does ritual create its own neurological environment.

I don't even know if I was consciously connecting it to the various shivas [Jewish rituals in the week following a death; usually referred to as «sitting shiva»] I've attended, but obviously that's what my brain was doing.

Just as Whiteread's sculptures of beds inevitably prompt thoughts of birth, sex, and death, so the cast of the sink becomes a font, a testament to water as a symbol of life, as an element in human ritual.

The works in the show will include photography, painting, sculpture and collage, combining to investigate flowers and their ritual function as markers of life, death and the sublime.

The piece came to life as a response to the death of a Columbian nurse who was tortured to death; performing the essence of a funerary ritual, which was denied to the subject, Salcedo simultaneously embodies the typical draping of a shroud for mass public viewers to experience.

The artists have created site - specific works to reinvent and reinterpret this intimate space exploring issues such as ritual and spirituality, memory and presence, death and transfiguration and the notion of revivalism in our post-Brexit Britain and after Trump victory.

Her multivalent use of blood interrupts settled social space as in Moffitt Building Piece (1973), implies violence Untitled (Self - Portrait with Blood)(1972), martyrdom as in Sweating Blood (1973), or religious ritual as in Untitled (Death of a Chicken)(1972).

He was likely the victim of a human sacrifice known as the «threefold death», a violent ritual suffered by Celtic kings who failed to appease their subjects.

The latter is informed by the traditions of death and mourning such as the Hungry Ghost Festival and the history of graveyards and burial rituals in Hong Kong.

Content will also include some of the history, purpose and current practices related to various rituals as well as focus on some ethical issues related to death and dying within the counseling profession.