Interestingly, the varied and individual nature of the responses demonstrates we don't really have defined traditions associated with the death of a pet in our society.
The saying of Kaddish, a short prayer that praises God and does not mention the deceased relative, is, like circumcision, regarded as a defining tradition, and strangers try to accommodate a mourner with a minyan.
To minimize its part in the history of abolition is to miss the central role of African-Americans, free and enslaved, in defining their traditions of protest.
So we can think of two correlative challenges for any approach which makes some appeal to phenomenology: perhaps such an account fails to reckon with the doctrinal content of religious "belief," and perhaps it overlooks the role of religious practice in defining religious traditions.
In practice, paediatric asthma care is managed within a framework defined by traditions, guidelines, and available resources depending on political and administrative decisions in the counties concerning organization of health care and the division of care between general practice, specialists in primary health care, and hospitals.
ROME — Last month, Gambero Rosso, the prestigious reviewer of restaurants and wine, sought out Rome's best carbonara, a dish of pasta, eggs, pecorino cheese and guanciale (cured pig cheek; for the aficionados, pancetta is not done) that defines tradition here.
This is a departure from historical Christianity centered on a liturgical tradition that had to do with faith lived in community and beliefs defined by tradition, not the individual pastor standing in front of the congregation holding forth according to whim.
His aims were not subtle: they were to define the tradition as Western and Christian, and to convert students to its norms.
In France, Tocqueville's name was too closely identified with a narrowly defined Liberal tradition, which rapidly lost influence during the Third Republic.
As he's the son of a builder (turned art collector!) who taught his son well, I ask first how he defines his tradition.
