Rituals are terribly important.

He loves rituals.

Rituals, reflections, poetic assaults ...

So Senegal s rituals of respect may not be holding.

When my father died many Christmas rituals disappeared from our household.

The same welcome rituals, surely for the farewell this time.

The same rituals they ve all been fed the same depravity by the Baath party.

By embedding death in rituals, society made its self questioning into a part of itself.

With time, the rituals of our life began to be measured by the quantity of electricity His Majesty bestowed upon us.

The spiritual practice expresses piety toward the mother figure, which reflects Vietnam s once matriarchal system.

Abbas Zahri, meanwhile, shared this photoshopped image of Obama performing Shia rituals, mourning the death of an Imam

These practices are carried out daily in local ceremonies, as well as at larger festivals and pilgrimages throughout the year.

They instead use forms of prayer, magic, and ritual which petition the demons, asking for their aid rather than commanding them.

The mystique of immense wealth, noble birth, and great exclusivity is further sustained by the global mass media that promote these rituals.

And so, you have these grand rituals where great images of mother goddesses are built and worshiped for 10 days ...

Diverse ceremonies were then held, like the rite to the chicha de jora , the fire and the sank u, the Andean people's main meal.

When the slave trade came to Brazil in the 16th century, African religious beliefs and rituals survived the long and treacherous journey along with it.

And I did that I put on my ritualistic dress I went to the holy mosque I did my prayers I observed all the rituals.

Cassava is an essential part of her life because it is used in rituals that help ensure that the harvest is fruitful.

If employees feel more like insiders a key purpose of military rituals there is little need for incentive pay or pay for performance schemes.

In a football match, the rituals the flag waving, the national anthems, the collective chants and the language that is employed (the match starts with a breakout of hostilities, one bombs the goal, blows up the defense, launches missile ) reinforce the perception of war by other means.

Even though Muslim practice is strong in Africa, there is widespread incorporation of traditional African rituals in ceremonies like weddings and funerals.

But these localized rituals become pan Andean, and these fantastic festivals, like that of the Qoyllur Rit'i, which occurs when the Pleiades reappear in the winter sky.

Historically, the rich in each low caste emulated the customs and rituals of the upper castes, such as child marriage, the payment of dowries, and prevention of widows remarrying.

But most of the traditional religious teachers in such schools practice Senegalese rituals of respect, and, in any case, view Saudi Arabian style schools as alien competitors.

I think over and again how these entry and exit ceremonies are more like worship rituals performed to get closer to the leader.

Indeed, organizations that are officially committed to involving all nations in their decision making are often controlled by small groups of powerful nations, while others merely go through the motions of participation.

The tree disappeared, for instance, but my mother retained the rituals of love and gift giving, as well as her insistence every year that we go out to celebrate with our friends and leave her by herself.

This tranquility has been helped by the elaborate rituals of respect that have developed between the secular state and the Sufi orders, and the excellent relations between the country s Muslim majority and the Catholic minority at all levels of society.

Writing about the way they celebrated Christmas as family with their son, he finds himself in a fix trying to make sense of his wife's atheist views and belief in traditional Chinese rituals.

We doggedly fight to prolong life, only to find that we cannot win this battle and are left unable to produce authentic rituals to accompany the end of our existence.

Even though rituals such as the closing of the body didn't come from Brazil, the fact that they took root there, among those who had it the roughest descendants of slaves and settlers of the Sertão seems to be no coincidence.

I sometimes notice Ms B performing strange rituals at home to ward off Bad Luck, and she has even cost us a lot of money in re positioning our front and back doors, in order to capture Good Luck in our home through good Feng Shui.

It had already been erected under a tree at the temple Kakrebihar, with the cloth that had covered its face removed after performing religious rituals and worship, when local government officials arrived and intervened, stating that the statue was against forestry policy.

I, as a cyborg anthropologist, have suddenly said, Oh, wow. Now suddenly we're a new form of Homo sapiens, and look at these fascinating cultures, and look at these curious rituals that everybody's doing around this technology.