Sentences with phrase «rites of religious cults»

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.

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Remember — the primary religions of the day were the fertility cults that believed, as part of their religious rites, that sexual relations with another somehow conveyed a portion of that person's strength and power to you.

Cult: a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.

I call these religions cults: «a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies..»

For the author, the cult of the icon has served to create a cordon sanitaire around the Orthodox churches, allowing them to immure themselves in a gated community of obscurantist ecclesiastical politics and attempted geographical hegemony whereby Western Christians (or Eastern churches in union with Rome) can not exercise their religious rights (and rites) in the lands of traditional Orthodoxy, but the Orthodox bodies are allowed to evangelize at will in the lands of the Western Enlightenment.