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Ritualism

noun
1.
The study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies.
2.
Exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship.





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"Ritualism" Quotes from Famous Books



... America. Dr. Lord belonged to the school of churchmanship which abhorred anything beyond the most severe simplicity in the services of the Church, and had a large contempt for the badges and symbols of ritualism. ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
... of all classes would abandon their contemptuous attitude towards so-called ecclesiasticism and ritualism, and criticise themselves, saying: We have had too much confidence in human reason and human words. Our worship is bare of every thing but the poor human tongue. We have excluded Nature from our worship, though Nature ...
— The Agony of the Church (1917) • Nikolaj Velimirovic
... Churches addicted to ritualism and literalism decline, the Brotherhood movement gains in force and influence. Men meet to give united expression to their religious impulses. They meet for prayer and worship, but never without immediate bearing on some ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby


Words linked to "Ritualism" :   ritualistic, social anthropology, pattern, cultural anthropology, practice, ritualist


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