One of the fastest risers in comedy, Anglo-Nigerian comic Andi Osho hits the road with her likable, if conventional, rites-of-passage tale celebrating multicultural Britain.
Clergymen, sociologists and other researchers say that much of the appeal of the new church social -- defined broadly as any gathering outside conventional rites of worship, often by small groups meeting on week days -- is generational, appealing to the many people in their 20's and 30's who grew up without formal religion.
Although Tantric and Shakta traditions did not oblige their followers to deviate in a socially visible way from the established order, they provided a ritual and a way of life for those who, because of sex or caste, could not participate satisfyingly in the conventional rites.
But I have also learned that if there's anything modern schools hate more than conventional chalkboards, it's rote learning.
Disruptive Fixation is his account of how this "school for digital kids," heralded as a model of tech-driven educational reform, reverted to a more conventional type of schooling with rote learning, an emphasis on discipline, and traditional hierarchies of authority.
Menstrual blood, strictly taboo in conventional Hinduism, was also used in Tantric rites.
"The second book is a thoroughly conventional autobiography by a politician's wife – a rote recitation of travel, public appearances and meetings with foreign dignitaries that sheds not the faintest new light on the presidency of the author's husband".
Though there may be rites of entrance that are to be observed, these frequently become no more than conventional acts, placing few demands upon the initiate.
BALTIMORE, June 11 — The rites of passage in Yuri Temirkanov's tenure as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra were anything but conventional.
