Sentences with phrase «symbolic rituals of»

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

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Persons who believe that etiquette is just following common sense in applying the mannerly injunction to be considerate of others fail to recognize that etiquette serves not only a regulative function, but also a symbolic and a ritual function.

For some, it can be a wonderful ritual, full of symbolic significance.

But neither the action itself nor its symbolic interpretation produces the effect it claims - that of benefiting life - making the ritual a violation of the deep convention protecting human life.

So you see, once the ritual was boiled down to the spiritual power within the ritual, the symbolic nature of the ritual disappeared, and the force was in the ritual itself, whether done in large quantities or little.

No system of ritual uniquely and exclusively qualifies as a vehicle for affirming devotion through symbolic acts.

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

The directness of the relationship is established not only through the mediation of the senses, e.g. the concrete meeting of real living persons, but also through the mediation of the «word,» i.e. the mediation of those technical means and those fields of symbolic communication, such as language, music, art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.

Though alternatives will be suggested below, it may be that there is no better symbolic ritual which so wonderfully depicts the idea of being buried with Christ and being raised to a new life in Him.

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.

For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

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.

What we have seen throughout this survey of Scriptures on baptism is that water baptism was a symbolic ritual in biblical times which everybody understood, even those who were not followers of Jesus.

The mutation of this personal quality into external ritual made the Tridentine mass a symbolic object of rebellion for literally millions of Catholics growing up in recent decades.

One should strive to grasp the symbolic meaning of the religious facts in their heterogeneous, yet structurally interlocking appearances; such facts can be rites or ritual behavior as well as myths or legends or supernatural beings.

The twentieth - century liturgical movement had included a revival of interest in the symbolic value of the Mass ceremonial and this found striking endorsement, specifically in relation to the consecration ritual, in Pius XII's 1947 encyclical Mediator Dei:

And in Durkheim, a lifetime of work in which the changing bases of moral community lie at the center culminates in a full - scale discussion of religious myth and ritual, a discussion rich with insights about the ways in which symbolic categories are constructed and how they function.

... It co-opts and restructures what Babcock has called «symbolic inversion,» where the gradual psychological opening to new messages characteristic of the liminal or transitional period of ritual is intensified by metaphorically turning elements of the normal belief system upside - down or inside - out.

Now is the time to lay the knife aside and to move forward into the 21st century with a form of ritual that is truly welcoming and that is truly purely symbolic.»

Interpretive / symbolic anthropology: Belief systems; ritual; rites of passage; shamanism; mythologies of science and technology; religion; cults.

The results of that work appear in two unpublished papers: «Myth and Ritual in Modern Mexico: A Shaman and his Group»; «Myth, Ritual, and Shamanism: A Symbolic Analysis of Cultural Vitality in Mexico.»

I focused on their ritual and symbolic enactments of their own value system as a template for the values with which they will approach space travel and space commerce in the 21st century, and have published that research in Late Editions VIII, Para-Sites, edited by George Marcus (2000).

Milah: Symbolic Circumcision of Covenant The original Biblical circumcision of Abraham's time was a relatively minor ritual circumcision procedure in which only the redundant end of the foreskin extending beyond the tip of the glans was removed.

This changing of the guard is powerfully symbolic, like the rituals that signify a new year.

On our own side stands Homo sapiens with the rituals and symbolic art — the cave paintings, beads and bracelets, decorative lamps and burial graves — that mark the arrival of a self - aware mind.

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

A temazcal is a type of sweat lodge which originated in ancient Mexico with Prehispanic indigenous people.During this solemn and symbolic ceremony, a Shaman will guide you through this ancient ritual and invoke the four elements to purify your mind, body and soul to propel you forward, day after day.

«This butchering of human skeletons can be associated with the Siberian ritual of the symbolic death of a Shaman, when spirits cut his, or her body into very small pieces,» he says.

Most of the traditional rituals include the use of symbolic gestures.

Its urban design has followed the symbolic patterns of the imperial capital, with ritual places dedicated to Inti.

With water fights, costumed parades, dancing girls and symbolic recreations of ancient rites, customs and traditions rituals, La Paz celebrates this Bolivian national holiday in style.

But in terms of relating things to ritual, my objects don't have a symbolic meaning, whereas they do in spiritual religions.

The subsequent development of McLuckie's distinctive, obsessive and symbolic visual language is adopted from the disciplines of rudimentary craft and self - taught bead - work, and he equates its process - driven nature to seasonality, cycles and attendant fertility rituals.

Insogna's devotional ceramic cauldrons reference scrying - an ancient form of divination, are paired with colorful abstract and symbolic figurative paintings to evoke a history of ritual practice.

There is an interest in defining a period of our collective history and cultural understanding through objects of symbolic meaning used for ritual and cultural identity.

The exhibition includes sculpture, installation and a film, which coalesce to consider the binary power structures of sadomasochism, ritual, authority and control, in order to reveal, through the artist's distinct visual language, how these roles are both symbolic and reversible.

The work of Shahar Marcus and Nezaket Ekici, who in recent years have been collaborating on performance and video works, is rife with ritual and ascetic, symbolic and metaphysical acts, usually in desert settings against the backdrop of a primeval landscape.

Under a veil of mystery, these figures perform symbolic rituals and communicate in an unknown language, perform traditional dances and follow certain rules of a community.

Meaningful rituals are highly symbolic, creating a sense of «This is who we are and will continue to be across generations.»