religious rituals

5 ways to create an openly spiritual home
Newsworks.org
Sometimes the rules and regulations of following an organized religion can become overwhelming. If you're choosing an openly spiritual home, you have the option to bring in as little or as much ritual and tradition as you please.

5Q+1: How Kate Shellnutt's technophilia meshes with religion
GetReligion
Her thesis was on the digitization of the Bible, and she conducted a sociological study on religious rituals on the web, particularly online confession. Naturally, you can also find Shellnutt on Twitter (personal & professional) and Facebook, ...

UW Religion Today Column for Week of May 20-26: Marriage: Before God or Man?
University of Wyoming News
If marriage is religious, it should not be. In the Catholic Church, marriage is one of the seven sacraments. Like communion and baptism, marriage constitutes a religious ritual conducted before God. It is led by a priest and witnessed by the entire ...

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Tucker: Marriage is civil right as well as religious sacrament
Pekin Daily Times
Such marriages would be readily and legally performed in a courthouse, but the First Amendment protects the right of religious institutions to perform only those rituals which they choose. By the way, that same protection runs in the other direction, ...

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Raja returns, supporters target mediapersons
Daily Pioneer
Priests could be seen getting inside the premises where religious rituals were performed and prayers offered. His supporters burst crackers, distributed sweets, beat drums and sang songs as the former Telecom Minister arrived there.

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Mobs, Monks and the Problem of Political-Buddhism: explaining matters to ...
Lankaweb
One should not bring in Buddhist teachings in order to condemn human behaviour and people's attachment to traditions and accepted religious norms , sanctity of all that belongs to the performance of religious rituals. Buddhism is the oldest religion of ...

This temple fair is incomplete without fishing
Deccan Herald
Normally annual temple fairs will have religious rituals and special pooja. But the annual fair of Ullaya Daivasthana of Khandigebeedu near Surathkal is unique and different from the rest. It is all about catching fish in River Nandini.

What is a good death? Ritual, whether religious or not, still counts
The Guardian
Ritual, even in this postmodern age, is flourishing. And whether or not we identify as religious such ritual, it seems, still counts. I spent last year conducting an anthropological study of the British Humanist Association (BHA), an organisation which ...

SCOTUS and Religious Freedom's Slippery Slope
American Thinker
Here's Burger once again in Bowen: To maintain an organized society that guarantees religious freedom to a great variety of faiths requires that some religious practices yield to the common good. Religious beliefs can be accommodated, but there is a ...

Zealous atheists resemble religious fanatics
Toronto Star
In religion, he wrote, “the world doesn't evolve around 'me'; I have to contribute to the world.” Kristof quotes psychology professor Jonathan Haidt, who writes that religious ritual practices point to a solution “to one of the hardest problems humans ...

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September 14, 2008 · Filed under Uncategorized

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