Professor Gruenwald’s lecture, titled “Ritual & Religion,” analyzes how ritual observance in Christianity and Judaism differ, but offer relatively similar functions. Gruenwald primarily discusses ...
I am writing this article from Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, the Holy Land. We visit Israel twice a year to be with my son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter. My son moved to Israel ...
“My wife and I have been members of a church for many years and have attended Sunday services as often as possible, which is we rarely miss them. The ritual of our early Sunday service with the coffee ...
Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger. Rituals aren’t meaningless actions. They can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect ...
Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.9514628.3 The study of the materiality of ancient religions offers a distinctive approach to the intricate interplay among ...
American Reform Jewry was urged today to determine “minimal standards” for observances of all Judaism’s religious ceremonies and to establish standards to make religious observance expressive of the ...
On Yahrzeit, anniversary of the death of any good Jew, a candle is lit in his honor. In synagogs and homes every Friday night candles are burned, and candles figure in many a Jewish ritual observance, ...
As custodians of ancient wisdom, Egyptian priests explored ritual, science, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality unlike ...
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