Odorinembutsu (the chanting of invocations accompanied by dancing and singing) and invocations to Amida are features of the Bon celebrations.
With no mimetic elements, the basket dance of the Tewa Pueblo rites includes invocations for plant growth and for the transmission of the gift of human life.
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of "British" values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Moreover, the invocations of the 50s usually accompanied a denunciation of the 60s, a period invariably presented as a regrettable era of self-indulgence and excess.
This is an album which skewers traditional, idyllic invocations of Englishness – there are "no birds singing/ [over] The White Cliffs of Dover" in the barbed-wire strewn no-man's land of the battlefield imagined in Hanging in the Wire.
Since 1999 these invocations have regularly included explicitly Christian references, including unmistakably religious mentions of "the life and death, resurrection and ascension of the Saviour Jesus Christ".
The court rejected the school's argument that this was private student speech.In his opinion for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that, despite being led by a student, "these invocations are authorised by a government policy and take place on government property at government-sponsored school-related events".
Their chief investigative counsel, David Schippers, is a life-long Democrat, but it is he who has presented 15 grounds for the possible impeachment of the president (four more than Mr Starr did, but without Mr Starr's rather strained charge that some invocations of executive privilege had been an abuse of office).
If religious invocations in legislative bodies were acceptable to the men who drafted the first amendment, the court reasoned in Marsh, they are all right now.In this section Where will you go, Bill de Blasio?
The new law will presumably make life easier for (Islamically) pious councillors in the northern English town of Oldham, where municipal debates have often begun with Muslim prayers.In America, a divided Supreme Court upheld the right of a local representatives in a town called Greece in the state of New York to begin their business with religious invocations.
There is more talk of an early election.Not there yetUnfortunately for Britain, those comforting invocations of the Blitz spirit may turn out to be presumptuous.
