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ritual: see ceremony ceremony, expression of shared feelings and attitudes through more or less formally ordered actions of an essentially symbolic nature performed on appropriate occasions. ..... Click the link for more information. . ritual 1. the prescribed or established form of a religious or other ceremony 2. such prescribed forms in general or collectively 3. Psychol any repetitive behaviour, such as hand-washing, performed by a person with a compulsive personality disorder How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Observes the brief, "For a chaplain or volunteer to impose his or her religious beliefs on an inmate, to press an inmate to participate in religious activities, or to make religious acquiescence a [condition for] receiving services is not only a contravention of [professional] . Participation in charitable, civic or religious activities that have had a long-term and significant impact on the community; 240) that his case study illustrates the limits of reading all popular religious activities as acts of "resistance" to the heavy-handed modernizing state. |
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