The trajectories of Christianity and African ritual practices: the public silence and the dilemma of mainline or mission churchesdoi:10.4314/ACTAT.V35I2.7Luvuyo NtombanaUniversity of the Free State
Although such religions as Christianity, especially in its Protestant forms, proclaim the primacy of the “spiritual” side (dogma and feelings) over ritual, in practice the preservation of religious relations in the masses is assured to a large extent by the effect of traditional systems of ...
Wright's study on Harrison and Victorian ritualism charts how the Oxford Movement, at the centre of this cultural development, construed the Reformation as having robbed Christianity of its materiality "--its icons, liturgical objects, intense color, transcending smells, dramatic performances, and ...
2Traditional beliefs and ritualFor descriptive purposes Shona beliefs and religious practices can be classi-fied into four distinct but interrelated categories associated with 1) the High-God, 2) the spirit world, 3) the diviner-herbalist, and 4) the wizard (sor-cerer or witch). The first ca...
Through an analysis of ritual chants and the use of material objects in ritual, this study explores the representational practices of belian curing, in order to better understand what constitutes their particularity. Following Webb Keane (1997: 8), I examine how representations exist "as things ...
Is Roman Catholicism Christianity? (TR 13) SPIRIT OF JEZEBEL AND BLOOD OF THE BEAST /REVELATION OF FALSE COMMUNION– THE ACT OF WORSHIP AND INITIATION OF THE “ONE WORLD RELIGION” What is theJesuit Oath?Why should we be concerned?
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Jesus is viewed as the mediator of this new community and of the knowledge which underpins its morality and ethics. The Eucharistic practices of the Didache in this way reflect a pre-Christological phase of Christianity.doi:10.1080/10226486.2005.11745763J.L.P. Wolmarans...
of the Greeks. UnderChristianity, Greek heroes and even deities survived as saints, while the rival madonnas of southern Europeancommunitiesreflected the independence of local cults. The rediscovery ofGreek literatureduring theRenaissanceand, above all, the novel perfection of Classical sculpture produced...
or action performed in a customary way. ... As an adjective, ritual means "conforming to religious rites," which are the sacred, customary ways of celebrating a religion or culture. Different communities have different ritual practices, like meditation in Buddhism, or baptism in Christianity. ...