Sentences with phrase «sacred ritual of»

Their only way to salvation was to take part in the sacred ritual of Nunobashi Kanjoe, literally «Purification on the Cloth Bridge» in the town of Tateyama.

Every three years, the town of Tateyama, around 400 km North West of Tokyo, stages the sacred ritual of Nunobashi Kanjoe where blindfolded women walk to paradise.

Once a sacred ritual of central and south American people, ayahuasca (aka: yage) has become a popular hack for startup and business success.

Some of the imagery focuses on emotion and the physical while other panels depict the sacred rituals of life.

Not exact matches

I don't think the Mormons would consider it «respectful» or «tolerant» if a group of non-Mormons co-opted and reinterpreted their sacred rituals to serve the purposes of their own non-Mormon faiths.

In its ritual function, etiquette serves the sacred, as a means of satisfying those of our spiritual needs that make us distinctly human.

The second is the equally incontestable fact that culture is derived from and connected to religion: architecture to temples of worship, drama to religious ritual, universities to acquiring sacred knowledge, music, sculpture and painting to the praise of the divine, indeed science and political economy themselves to categories generated by divine stories.

For archaic man the only reality is the sacred reality of which he becomes a part through myth and ritual.

Many Christians I know (and I am one of them) would say that the very physical natural of the rituals reminds us that we have an embodied, enacted faith — and that embodiedness and enactedness is (if those are words) is just want enables us to see all of life is sacred.

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.

In fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing of sacred books, or the performance of specific ritual acts.

The narratives of the Bible report those acts for the same purpose and even prescribe ritual events for the telling and retelling of the sacred stories.

The Levitical law's sacrificial system didn't pertain to atonement and forgiveness though, it was a means of maintaining ritual purity within sacred space.

But there are enough tidbits to imply that he was a Social Gospel Christian, very much the product of his family's targeted philanthropy and devotion to liberal Protestantism.The grandson of America's first billionaire, Rockefeller was born into a pious Baptist home where liquor, smoking and profanity were prohibited, family prayers were a daily ritual, and the Sabbath always sacred.

The modern tendency to deconstruct and demythologize religion has deprived it of its rich myths, symbols and rituals — and of a sense of the sacred imbued in the ordinary.

But whether by way of myth and ritual, or through interior meditation or prophetic faith, religion seeks to annul all opposition between the sacred and the profane, thereby seeking a renewal of paradise in the present moment.

For example, the Torah [the first five books of the Bible] assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

Whether it involves a memorial in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a victim of the Trail of Tears, the Hawaiian tradition of pono (righteousness and balance), California New Age groups borrowing Indian rituals or New Mexico tribes arguing for the return of their sacred sites, the story of regional religious culture has to acknowledge these rich (and often contentious) roots.

The heart of his instruction was that Augustine should not destroy the pagan temples, rituals, and sacred stories but should try to incorporate indigenous beliefs and practices into orthodox Christianity.

Christian liturgy is an example of cultural performance grounded in a ritual mode but puts together «types of performance that are sacred and secular, that are religious, aesthetic, and recreational», is «quasi-theatrical» but «is no pretense, but an actual, here and now doing» Following Schechner, Driver braids «efficacious» aspects of ritual performance with «entertaining» elements of «aesthetic» theatre.

Christian liturgy, like other forms of sacred rituals, is «an efficacious performance that invokes the presence and action of powers which, without the ritual, would not be present or active at that time and place.»

Our liturgy is sacred ritual because it creates anticipation and receptivity to the Spirit of the Risen Christ in the experience of the participants.

It includes both the community's cultic or ritual life (repetitive, symbolic actions expressive of the community's sacred story) and its people's daily work (vocation or «profession») in the world.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby, Atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color, Atheism is a religion like off is a television channel Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex act Atheism is a religion like health is a disease Atheism has no sacred text, no orthodoxy, no rites or rituals, no houses of worship... it is not a religion or a faith.

Always in this momentary rebirth there must be a rescuer or a rescuing agent: Ariadne's thread, Dante's Virgil, the pattern traced on the floor of the palace at Knossos for ritual dancing, the emblem on the doorway of the temple, the design in the ground outside the sacred cave, the ritual solution of a puzzle, etc..

The school fulfills in our times the role of the ancient initiation rituals, which introduced our children to the society and to their human and sacred role in this society.

The ritual is not sacred in itself — this much we have gained from our Protestant heritage — but rite and ritual are the carriers of truth.

The primary purpose of the act was in defense of native American lands which they considered sacred as well as the use of peyote in their religious rituals.

The Church imposes an egalitarian social order in the organisation of its rituals and is increasingly involved in secular affairs, thus collapsing the complementarity of religious equality and caste hierarchy, and more generally of the sacred and the secular.

A Hindu wedding, one of the most sacred of rites, incorporates many of these timeless rituals and customs.

Only some make sacred their civil rituals; only some create theology out of their political myths.

The end of that argument is that Wagner's innovative «anthropological thinking... which puts ritual in place of doctrine» was the seminal influence on artistic modernism, and that this modernism is the surest route we now know to the sacred.

32 - 34; «J») which preserved a ritual decalogue, and a somewhat later version («E,» having its place of origin in the north) which associates the ethical decalogue with the Covenant of the sacred mountain.

The dance of the Whirling Dervishes is not only a sight to behold for spectators, it is a sacred ritual for followers of this mystical and philosophical strand of Islam.

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.

This mosque was later regarded as so sacred that participation seven times there in the ritual worship of the Id al - Qurban, the festival associated with the annual pilgrimage, was believed to be equal to one pilgrimage to Mecca.

Knowledge of the sacred texts, rituals, and customs of non-European religions gradually became accessible to European intellectuals.

The transport is ritual, ceremonial, an amalgam of metaphor and reality, image and imagination, process and procession, text and scene set, script and silence, witness and participation — theater, «sacred theater,» indeed.

We can easily see how a ritual would evolve from this story — perhaps the annual offering of a sacrificial victim at the foot of the sacred tree.

Atheism has no sacred text, no orthodoxy, no rites or rituals, no houses of worship... it is neither a religion nor a faith.

3 - 34, J) which «remembers» a ritual decalogue, and a somewhat later version (E, having its locus in the North, not the South as J) which associates the Ethical Decalogue with the covenant of the sacred mountain.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

Putting kids to bed can be a challenge, and it may be an even bigger problem for this generation of parents because the sacred bedtime ritual of reading to children has gone away.

As I've embraced the liturgy and begun to recognize our needs for times of celebration and ritual, for the acknowledgment of what is significant in our years and weeks and days, I've come to see that space is sacred.

Yet the shroud of negativity lifted under the influence of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in the hallucinogenic mushrooms used in sacred Native American rituals.

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.

It seems that this was a holy site for a pagan religion — a sacred grove — where the victorious conclusion of major battles was marked by the ritual presentation and destruction of the bones of the vanquished warriors,» adds Mads Kähler Holst.

Before you officially start your ritual, gather sacred items that are symbolic of the change you wish to make.

This is an ancient self - affirmation ritual I learned from my Ayurveda teacher, Acharya Shunya (who grew up in a family of Vedic sages who have been practicing this sacred ritual for thousands of years), to connect with that great, indwelling soul power that resides in each and every one of us.