Sentences with phrase «death rituals of»

After the Civil War, a confluence of factors disrupted the established death rituals of American Christians.

Not exact matches

They celebrate unique rituals, observe a unique set of laws, cherish and tell a unique set of stories, perceive life (and death) against a unique horizon.

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.

Religion is, by and large, built on a profound fear of death... and the church has used that fear to perpetuate a system that is filled with hypocrisy, ritual, judgment, and conflict.

With some creative thinking, such symbolic rituals of death and resurrection could be performed in nearly all cultures for any burial ceremony.

«At the same time, Luedemann concludes that the portrayal of Jesus celebrating such a ritual on the night before his death is not historical.

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.

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

The weighted hour of death, with all its cultural and religious ritual, has been tied to the acquisition of transplantable organs.

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.

We understood, too late, how healing and important are the rituals of death.

Christs birth, blameless life, betrayel to death, and resurrection in God were the fulfillment of all the prophetic words and rituals, «Laws», that fortold His doings.

The document says the ritual is «not a liturgical form of «good morning», but a witness to the Christian belief that true peace is a gift of Christ's death and resurrection».

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.

According to Goguel the New Testament preserves direct evidence of a ritual burial for Jesus in the words attributed to Paul in Acts 13:28 - 9, «Though they failed to find grounds for the sentence of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

The details of these myths and the accompanying ritual differed from country to country, and even from city to city, but certain motifs became dominant and chief among these was the concern with life and death.

So when my heavy metal / death rock band performs rituals binding the souls of dead Mormons to the eternal service of our dark Lord, tolerate us.

What rituals could be done to symbolize the death and resurrection of new believers?

You discuss looking at burial rituals to consider new ways to present the symbolism of baptism, but regardless of how a society buries it's dead you will never find a society on earth that isn't familiar with the concept of drowning; thus death by water has a universal power not limited to any culture.

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.

These symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

These are a few examples of symbolic rituals that could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

The New York Times: City Urges Requiring Consent for Jewish Rite New York City health officials proposed on Tuesday that Orthodox Jewish parents be required to sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual that is believed to have led to the deaths of at least two babies in the city over the past decade.

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.

Simultaneously, there is also ample evidence that in the formal structure of Christian life - crisis rituals themselves (puberty, marriage, death), there is again continuity with those of the Hindus.

But since we resist death, we continue on and on down through the centuries perpetuating the same old cycle of revolution - renewal - ritual, revolution - renewal - ritual, revolution - renewal - ritual... ARGH!

Iberian Catholicism with its emphasis on orthodoxy, rituals and the divinely established monarchical nature of all society conquered physically but itself was absorbed by the pre-Colombian spiritualism with its emphasis on the cosmic - earthly rituals expressing the harmonious unity of opposing tensions: male and female, suffering and happiness, self - annihilation and transcendence, individual and group, sacred and profane, life and death.

But the study of initiation symbolism seeks another end: to decipher the implicit symbolism in such and such a rite or initiation myth (regressus ad uterum, ritual death and resurrection, etc.), to study each one of these symbols morphologically and historically, and to elucidate the existential situation which has made the formation of these symbols possible.

With the erosion of religious, ethnic and social connections and the rituals and practices they provide to confront mortality and bereavement, more and more of us must reinvent, from the leftovers and borrowings of our various traditions, the wheel that works the space between the deaths that happen and the deaths that matter.

It is quite another order of knowledge that discloses, for example, the «lunar destiny» of human existence, the fact that man is «measured» by the temporal rhythms illustrated by the phases of the moon, that he is fated to die but, quite like the moon which reappears after three days of darkness, man too can begin his existence anew, that in any case he nourishes the hope in a life after death, assured or ameliorated through an initiation ritual.

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.

New York city: An elderly Chinese couple today took the proceeds from the sale of their laundry — some $ 100,000 — ignited it into a small bonfire in their apartment (an ancient ritual investment in immortality for oneself and one's ancestors), then with their daughter leaped from their window to their death.

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.

The latter was a ritual dramatization of the Isis — Osiris myth of death and resurrection, through «which the initiate sought immortality.

Elephants are capable of mourning and simple burial rituals and understanding death and likely, according to recent research, have complex emotions.

«I never blamed John Mahama over the death, I never said John Mahama used Captain Mahama for rituals, the tape of the interview is with Okay FM, where I granted the interview, everybody in the country can go and pick it up to listen to ascertain whether or not I made those comments.»

Under the Bloomberg administration, Jewish parents were required to sign a consent form before the controversial ritual, which has been linked to two deaths and two cases of brain damage since 2000.

Sometimes a police officer is buried without the usual ritual 21 gun salutes to inform members of the police fraternity who have taken the lead in the world of death that another officer is coming.

His highlights from that tenure included covering the death of Hugo Chavez and the unraveling that followed under President Maduro; a story on the busty mannequins manufactured in Venezuela to match the local obsession with plastic surgery; a story on the Yawar fiesta, an annual celebration in a few remote Andean towns in Peru where a condor is tied to the back of a bull for a ritual bullfight; and, ah yes, the great secret service prostitution scandal from President Obama's visit to Colombia, in which he was the only reporter to find and interview the two hookers at the center of the scandal.

Although this is a very American book, much of the material in Death to Dust is universally applicable, apart from the legal considerations and some of the more florid excesses of the transatlantic funeral rituals which make up the so - called «American way of death&raDeath to Dust is universally applicable, apart from the legal considerations and some of the more florid excesses of the transatlantic funeral rituals which make up the so - called «American way of death&radeath».

Myths tell of the origin of death and disease, the trials of life that ritual practices address.

Its elaborately carved form, so similar in design to the temples, hints that it was also a temple for the dead, central to the rituals of death, burial and the afterlife.

In recent years, an excavation at the site of the Brochtorff Circle on Gozo has uncovered important evidence about the prehistoric rituals of death.

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.

After the ritual passing of a plastic cup of roughly distilled arak — banana alcohol, which Pierre had the courage (or perhaps the common sense) to refuse — we asked them to describe their experience of the new illness, the number of cases and deaths, the dates, whether they had knowledge of any people currently sick.