Sentences with phrase «social ritual of»

Steinbach is interested in the shared social ritual of collecting, arranging and presenting everyday objects and materials, an experience that on a basic level extends to us all, whether it's through -LSB-...]

The space underneath a table is familiar on a human physical scale, and relates to the universally familiar social ritual of a shared meal or exchanged conversation.

Fascinated by the shared social ritual of collecting, arranging, and presenting objects, Steinbach originally culled used goods from flea markets and yard sales for his art works.

Anthropologists have told us a great deal about how the ceremonies, beliefs and the social rituals of death differ greatly across the world, but we have few clues about how these different approaches affect how people experience the dead after they have gone.

Internationally acclaimed American artist Tina Barney burst on the scene in the early 1980s with her provocative yet intimate photographs capturing the domestic lives and social rituals of the elite.

Using high exposure and elevated contrast, Craig - Martin's close - ups represent the vanity, excess, and arcane social rituals of our culture, while simultaneously providing commentary on the vulnerability of her subjects and what she describes as their «failed armor.»

Not exact matches

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

By contrast, during the widespread «satanic ritual abuse» hysteria of the 1980s, people believed bizarre accusations of child abuse, which were being perpetuated by credulous social workers and psychotherapists.

Are we persuaded that the water we pour does wonders, or that a little ritual meal forms the social body of the incarnate Son of God, the assembly of God among the nations?

Since time immemorial, etiquette has been used to establish the principles of social virtue, as well as the rules, symbols, and rituals of civilized life.

A more reliable description of religion would make reference to its many aspects, including knowledge, beliefs, experience, ritual practices, social affiliation, motivation and behavioral consequences.

With increasing complexity in Israel's social life, however, came corresponding developments in ritual and priesthood, especially after royal families began copying, in temple architecture, modes of worship, and priestly prerogatives, the models of Phoenicia.

Today, though a Christian be as thoroughgoing as the Quakers in discarding ritual, he must none the less appreciate the often superior quality of inward spiritual life and outward social service on the part of those who in the sacrifice of the Mass see Christ verily present.

In Whitehead's «theory of religion,» the development of religion leads (at least in its last level that we know of) to a rationalization of religious experience (LM 20 - 36) 5 Although, at first, religious concerns were preoccupied with rituals, partial myths, and emotional stabilization, later religious consciousness evolved increasingly towards the recognition of universal connectivity, leaving behind provincial rituals and social bindings (RM 28).

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.

Factors such as trade routes, the order of military encampment, property divisions, farming practices, building practices, economics and technology, and social stratification» not to mention a vast array of ritual processions and gatherings that might have only a tenuous connection to the type of conscious and coherent cosmology that Msgr. Mannion presupposes to have existed in these cultures» all coexisted with whichever form of religious devotion was particular to a given place and people.

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.

Those in America, obviously, have a different social view of the church's practices, values, rituals which often times are reluctantly ignored.

It is generally believed that the laws, customs, and rituals by which the particular system is defined are written into the nature of things, and that the social structure is but a true reflection of the innate qualities of human nature in its several kinds.

This has down - played the justice dimension of spirituality and stressed only social service and ritual worship.

Their allegiance implied rejection of all other gods and service of him alone in ritual and in national and social obedience.

Perhaps most important of all is the development of social customs and pressures against individual and solitary drinking for psychological relief and in favor of community rituals in which the need to belong and to celebrate the goodness of life can be constructively satisfied.

That will depend on how ready people are to reshape their spiritual inheritance in response to the new global culture, for in the coming global era, new terms and concepts will be created, along with new rituals and patterns of social behavior.

«Traditional» rituals, moral and social values, may «work» in parts of the country where a Protestant ethos is still a part of regional culture.

Dallas was a classic instance of what social scientists call the rituals of self - denigration.

As social scientists assist pastor and people in developing a rich fund of the stories, traditions, world views, character, symbols, and rituals of a congregation, chances for God's Word impacting the congregation in profound ways are greatly enhanced.

Social responsibility and discernment require a clear perception of such rival myths and their power, recognition of such competing visions and rituals, ability to exorcize those that are malign, and to reconcile those that are benign.

Almost every department of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media of the time.

At the same time, there are religions, and some of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the ritual: aspect of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems of ethics, and some of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.

Most strikingly, however, it prescribes with the ritual requirements for meeting the restrictions created by Yahweh's holiness an even higher moral, social and ethical demand than is found in either of the other codes.

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.

The possibility of social transformation was seen to depend on finding God in each individual through the communal rituals of worship and service.

The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the social organization of distinct communities and the collective rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.

WORLD: Nothing if you include the study / formulations of philosophy and psychological benefits of religious ritual, along with other social sciences, as part of science... instead of classifying them as belonging to just a bunch of crazy loonies with no cause for their actions.

In yet another social form, Hopewell notes, persons can gather occasionally and informally at a religious shrine, each to perform her or his own individual meritorious rituals of devotion.

This proposition is examined in terms of the three universal expressions or functions of religious faith, whether theistic or non-theistic: the practical, or the system of worship or ritual; the sociological, or the system of social relationships; and the theoretical, or the system of beliefs.

The threat to this idea of secularism arises form religious fundamentalism which is afraid of insecurity through change in traditional religious dogmas, ritual practices of purity and impurity in social laws; the threat also comes from communalism which seeks political power for one's religious community or in the case of Hindutva wants to establish a Hindu state.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

Religion and its rituals afforded a creative «anti-structure,» a great «time out that was distinguished from the rigid maintenance of social orders and hierarchies.

In The First Urban Christians (1983) Meeks tells the story of Jesus groups founded by Paul, focusing on their «urban» environment, their social life and the formation of their ekklesia, governance, ritual, patterns of belief and patterns of life.

Later on, Turner portrayed religion as embodying aspects of both structure and anti-structure, and rituals as those special activities that mediate the opposing demands of both «communitas» and the formalized social order.

In fact, when deprived of an explicit metaphysical - moral underpinning, the ideologies of either capitalism or socialism themselves take on cultish form, complete with secularized high priests, denominational orthodoxies, doctrinal disputes, and ritual excommunications all under the garb of social analysis.

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.

Part of the attack on suburban conformity had included precisely the criticism that churchgoing was but a social ritual, not a sign of deep commitment.

Space does not permit elucidation of the specific principles on which they worked, but it may suffice for our purpose to note that the law, the shari`a, as built up by the founders and generations of commentators, embraces all the rules of God's prescription for the conduct of men — domestic life, political and social activities, religious and ritual duties.

Through the various circumstances that determined its composition there were included certain social codes and much ritual direction, both of which had enjoyed a long history and operation.

And he was apparently most scrupulous in the performance of the rituals, both religious and social, which were proper to his time and station.

After all, most food institutions cater to the traditional American diet, and many of our rituals and social activities revolve around food.

2008 Robbie Davis - Floyd, entry on «Rituals,» International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by Wm. A. Darity.

According to current attachment research, after divorce, evenings and overnights provide opportunities for crucial social interactions and nurturing activities that access «visits» can not provide, including bathing, soothing hurts and anxieties, bedtime rituals, comforting in the middle of the night, and the reassurance and security of snuggling in the morning after awakening.