Before then, work and nonwork activities had been closely related to each other for example, in the popular observance of the weekly "Saint Monday," when furious bouts of working were followed by equally furious bouts of enjoyment on a day supposedly given over to work.
The "law" element measures the strength and impartiality of the legal system, while the "order" element is an assessment of popular observance of the law.
Xunzi's denial of supernaturalism led him into a sophisticated interpretation of popular religious observances and superstitions.
Popular celebrations and observances include Uttarayan, an annual kite-flying day on 14 and 15 January.
The Shīʿī nature of the state was manifest in the inauguration of popular and passionate observance of Shīʿī festivals and the encouragement of pilgrimages to the holy places of an-Najaf and Karbalāʾ in Iraq.
Dawn services are also held in Australia; in New Zealand, dawn services are the most popular form of observance of this day.
It is very similar to Durga Puja in its details and observance, and is especially popular in Bengal and some other parts of Eastern India.
The whole rich emotional hinterland of its observance is reflected at various points in popular culture, from the singing of Abide With Me at football matches to a lingering taste at some funerals for the same hymn, and The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended.
I find blanket attacks on faith fail to recognize how individual, sustaining and enriching religious observance can be, and I thank America for its impossible optimism and its wealth of popular culture that has stirred and enlightened me for forty years.
In terms of popular culture, a more regularized and less demanding working day and week became part of a new kind of working year, so that old calendrical observances and rituals were lost.
