Sentences with phrase «in initiation rites»

One way Pinchbeck sought to connect to a higher wisdom was by visiting and participating in initiation rites and psychedelic drug rituals with tribes such as the Bwiti cult in Gabon - Pinchbeck also interviews Sting in the film about the singer's psychedelic experience taking the hallucigenic Ayahuasca in Brazil.

The symbolism of night and darkness — which can be discerned in the cosmogonic myths, in initiation rites, in iconographies portraying nocturnal or subterranean animals — reveals the structural solidarity between precosmic and prenatal darkness on the one hand, and death, rebirth, and initiation on the other.

Not exact matches

The new Roman Catholic «Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults» has also attracted attention as a means of making the conversion of an adult an experience shared in community rather than an individual matter.

In any case, we know nothing about him until he left home to join the apocalyptic movement of John by undergoing John's initiation rite, baptism in the JordaIn any case, we know nothing about him until he left home to join the apocalyptic movement of John by undergoing John's initiation rite, baptism in the Jordain the Jordan.

In the second rite, which is observed much more often than the rite of initiation by water, the cleric says words over some small items of food which are then considered to be instilled with special power from God to make a person more like Him.

The number of adult converts per year has been growing steadily and is testimony, in part, to the success of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), a program of evangelization and catechesis begun after the Second Vatican Council.

In recent years the Western churches have been greatly influenced by the Orthodox and Oriental churches; they have felt the appeal of many Eastern rituals: the strong emphasis on the paschal mystery; the attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic rite; the value of commemorating such events as the baptism of the Lord; and the unity of Christian initiatioIn recent years the Western churches have been greatly influenced by the Orthodox and Oriental churches; they have felt the appeal of many Eastern rituals: the strong emphasis on the paschal mystery; the attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic rite; the value of commemorating such events as the baptism of the Lord; and the unity of Christian initiatioin the eucharistic rite; the value of commemorating such events as the baptism of the Lord; and the unity of Christian initiation.

In others an initiation rite.

However, phenomenologically baptism belongs both to the category of ablution rites, in which water is used as a symbol of religious purification, as well as to the rites of initiation, involving a symbolic dying to the old self and rising to a new state of existence.

I'd love to hear that you jumped through the hoops, walked the gauntlets, and participated in whatever other initiation rites that pass as «selection for ministry» at the moment without having to subsume who you are and play a semi-fictitious character.

Infant Baptism is only a rite of initiation and commits parents and godparents to bringing up the child in a Christian home.

Finally, let it be stated that the value of early Christian thought finds expression in contemporary renewal, especially in the areas of liturgy and the rites of initiation (baptism, confirmation, Eucharist).

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.

One has only to recall the great importance attached to the initiation rites implying a regressus ad uteram, through which man believes he can begin a new existence, or the numerous ceremonials designed to reactualize periodically the primordial «chaos» in order to regenerate the world and human society.

Their rites of initiation, to some extent modeled after the famous and generally acceptable Eleusinian mysteries, were well known, although it is by no means certain that many persons participated in them.

As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, 12 years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Although almost three - quarters of the film moves to the sound of drums, the images in one's mind veer more towards drill sergeant movies, sports flicks and cult initiation rites.

Through the beautiful prose of his narration, we join Jason in boyish adventures and coming - of - age rituals (first cigarette, initiation rites, first kiss), and we learn of his ambitions (poetry, forestry) and his anxieties (stammering, the Falklands war, his parents» relationship, girls).

You are on the verge of completing your initiation rite to become a fully - fledged Technomancer yourself — but will you survive long enough to uncover the mysteries hidden in Mars» dusty embrace?

In developing his process Rhode was first «inspired by a high school initiation rite whereby young pupils were unwillingly taken into the boys» toilets by senior pupils and forced to interact with chalk - drawn objects on the walls.»

At Cambridge, the word has more legendary connotations, calling to mind the university's dining clubs, ancient initiation rites and the decadence of undergraduate parties, all played out in the timeless splendour of the colleges and along the sweep of the River Cam.

While Okay Mountain's cohesive show at the Blaffer investigates groupthink sardonically through props and a video meant to mimic the initiation rites of religious cults, Sketch Klubb appeared less comfortable (and rightly so) with situating their tits - and - dicks iconography in a critical construct at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston.

Between these two large works stands the strange, ox - shaped «Boli,» a ritual object used in male initiation rites in Africa.

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For example, the rites of cicatrization (the inducement of scars), genital mutilation, and teeth gouging practiced today in some primitive cultures are analogous to modern forms of extreme body modification, needle sharing, and gang initiation rituals that involve committing violent or criminal acts.

Marriage preparation began to develop in North America (where it has probably been worked at more consciously / thoroughly than in other areas of the world) in the 1940s, before the role of the adult sponsor in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was re-developed after Vatican Council II.