Native-place ties were frequently expressed in worship of a deity, so that a temple or territorial cult would become a vehicle for collective action.
Let us, then (he liked that construction), not wallow in worship of a statue looking gravely down on multitudes from a marble monument engraved with famous lines.
White Lotus sectarianism appealed to other Chinese, most notably to women and to the poor, who found solace in worship of the Eternal Mother, who was to gather all her children at the millennium into one family.
The first major social development, in Dr. Fukuyama's view, was the transition from hunter-gatherer bands to tribes, made possible by religious ideas that united large numbers of people in worship of a common ancestor.
Even those in between herd together, like the sweet little dickheads shown here lining up in worship of Boy George, all having stuck bits of their nan's angora yarn in their hair beforehand.
Henotheism (from the Greek heis theos, "one god")—a belief in worship of one god, though the existence of other gods is granted also called kathenotheism (Greek kath hena theon, "one god at a time")—which literally implies worship of various gods one at a time has gone out of fashion as a term.
Graham's outlook conflicted overtly with a traditional Chinese narrative of a disciple Zhuangzi following a semi-divine Laozi in worship of The Mystical Dao.
It reflected on the wisdom of being in worship of the feminine.
