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ritual | American Dictionary

ritual
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈrɪtʃ·u·əl/
a set of actions or words performed in a regular way, often as part of a religious ceremony
A ritual is also any act done regularly, usually without thinking about it:
[ C ]My morning ritual includes reading the newspaper while I drink my coffee.

Examples of ritual

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How do the supposed liminal dimensions of some material elements of the ritual relate to fire as a medium of transition?
As these groups identified themselves with specific parts of the landscape, particular parts of it took on ritual and symbolic meanings.
Most fruitful to that study is understanding the ' fundamental symbolic system underlying the whole range of ritual institutions ' (145).
Transformation, then, seems to be a key concept for understanding the ritual practices.
All of these spaces provide a context or theater in which public ritual performances appear to have been conducted.
From my point of view, it would be nice to have a somewhat broader set of reviews that contextualises ritual performances in particular societies.
Moreover, recitations of mythical stories and ritual performances provide the model for the 'good' life worthy of imitation.
She notes that such descriptions inordinately emphasize the ritual performances surrounding iron production.
It is possible that these pieces were used in ritual contexts outside the funerary context, then later placed in the tomb as an offering.
Instead, there may be important traditions of formal oratory and oral story telling, along with ritual and ceremony that have oral components.
The challenge for the wider community is to recognise the innate dignity of the dying, a recognition implicit in the rituals of some cultures.
Chiefs were soon even unable to maintain local agricultural rituals.
The awe and fear are internally related to what the ritual shows or says.
These graves are an indication that the burial ritual lost its egalitarian outlook, stressing the significance of particular persons.
As in earlier, non-dramatic performances like carnival or festive ritual, the audience came to the theatre expecting a dialogic relationship with the stage performers.
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ancient ritual
It also provides important clues about how the ancientritual might have been carried out.
annual ritual
One annualritual of particular political importance, which could involve partisan tasks, is the drafting of the minister's speech to his annual party conference.
burial ritual
These graves are an indication that the burial ritual lost its egalitarian outlook, stressing the significance of particular persons.
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