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... beings and that our being so is manifested in the widespread belief, found across cultures and historical epochs, that taking human life contaminates the killer and may pose a threat to the entire community, unless rituals of purification are performed to counteract it. Examples from the Hebrew Bible...

... or ritual “celibacy...

... of Manu (Manusmṛti). While sacrifice was the official rite par excellence, performed for a paying aristocracy that desired purification and success in this world and the next, it was also performed simply because the Veda commanded it. The Brahmin who became a renouncer underwent a ritual that involved...

.... After going through a number of purification rituals, the old men of rituals, of purification anumber through going After...

... meditations on the defensive function of rituals and symbols. More practically, the lecture was intended, by its successful drafting and delivery before an audience of inmates, doctors, and professional colleagues, to prove Warburg's sanity and secure his release. Through an investigation of the outbreak...

... of such performances as gratitude to the kami, and I did so at the shrine s hall of sacred music and dance. Thus I was able to observe a ritual consisting of the purification and offering of sacred food, a priest s recita- tion of a Shinto text (norito) expressing the visitor s wishes, the performance of sacred music...

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..., with regard to ritual and gender‐based religious practices in the Christian West, and with respect to similarities that might be claimed between elements of Christian and non‐Christian cultures. Her thoughts about morphology, materiality, and gender extend beyond medieval Europe to the world at large. Her...

..., when a priest, ahead of a major ritual performance, undergoes a fast for ritual purification) and one in which various ascetic practices are combined to make asceticism a full-fledged, permanent way of life (for instance, in monastic traditions). While the former tends to reaffirm the ordinary way...

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... legitimation as successor to the position of Solomon's Temple. Still, according to Rowe, “lay penitents who saw the Strasbourg portal in the course of atonement rituals were encouraged . . . to associate the abject Synagoga with sinfulness writ large. Activated by rites of contrition, a figure of Judaism...

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