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ritual
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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.
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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


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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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