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Ritual : Social and Cultural Anthropology
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According to most theories, ritual either involves different forms of action from everyday life, or at least different purposes. For example, in Christian ritual, the act of ingesting bread during holy communion is different from eating bread at any...
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Ritual : Hindu Terms
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(kriyā, karman) a symbolical procedure believed to reflect cosmic and spiritual processes to which individuals and communities are linked or subjected and which they can influence through it. There is a rite for each stage of a Hindu’s life,...
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Ritual : Buddhist Terms
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Early Bsm. deprecated ritual, and the Southern School still makes little use of ceremony. The Tantric Schools of Tibet and the Shingon of Japan use elaborate rituals. (See Fetters, Magic,...
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Ritual : Adult and Continuing Education
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A sequence of patterned behaviours, often socially or culturally designated. Many such rituals exist in the education...
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Ritual Information
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A ritual is a set of actions, often thought to have symbolic value, the performance of which is usually prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community by religious or political laws because of the perceived efficacy of those actions[1][2]...
 


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Ritual Quotes
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Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed. Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. Rituals...


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The Washington Post
Rituals That Bind
10/06/1995: 1,269 words, approx. 4 pages
It has been 25 years since Vivian Harold, 35, found the tiny daily love notes her father packed in her lunch box. But the memory still moves her. "I don't know how he did it," says Harold, who had four siblings and a...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
The New Ritualism
04/16/2006: 1,148 words, approx. 4 pages
RUTH PADAWER, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-16-2006 THE NEW RITUALISM -- Had a personal disaster? Victory? There's a ceremony to mark it. By RUTH PADAWER, STAFF WRITER Date: 04-16-2006, Sunday Section: LIVING Edtion: All Editions Where the rest...
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Quinceanera ritual divides Catholics
1/3/2008: 1,145 words, approx. 4 pages
On the day she is to become a woman, Monica Reyes sits in front of the church for Mass. Her white dress — sewn in her mother's Mexican hometown — spills over her chair like an oversized lampshade.The priest urges her to live as a...
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Principal ousted over NYC school ritual
8/8/2007: 395 words, approx. 1 pages
A public school principal accused of paying a woman to sprinkle chicken blood on the high school in an attempt to cleanse it of negative energy will be fired, the Department of Education said Tuesday.Maritza Tamayo, principal of the Unity Center for Urban Technologies, paid...
 


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