Sentence examples for prayer rites from inspiring English sources

Since then, except for rare exceptions, Muslim prayer rites have been forbidden inside.

Rural Zen monks helped to popularize many Buddhist rituals now common in Japan, such as prayer rites for worldly benefits, conferment of precept lineages on lay people, funerals, ancestral memorials, and exorcisms.

Two tall, long walls are made of bricks salvaged from a 120-year-old kiln in Illinois; inset are fake windows and Cambodian bas-relief panels depicting Buddhist prayer rites.

Mr. Echavarría gives perspectives from those involved — these deeply invested "adoptantes," a "soul keeper" who leads prayer rites, a fisherman still shaken over the bodies he has found in the water — and periodically halts the film for serial montages of his tomb photography.

Consecration, an act by which a person or a thing is separated from secular or profane use and dedicated permanently to the sacred by prayers, rites, and ceremonies.

"The project captures glimpses of a society which cultural and religious history, in its particular diversity and isolation, reveals itself not only in special prayers, rites or structures of society today, but also in clear political actions for autonomy and equality of different social groups, and for the support and development of its own identity".

March 28 2013 March 29 201313 Deeply embedded in the Japanese traditions of Noh and kyogen, Sanbaso has even more ancient roots in harvest prayers, cleansing rites, and origin myths.

Each household had an altar (lararium), at which the family members would offer prayers, perform rites, and interact with the household gods.

"Monks and nuns in the Central Middle Ages often get a bad rap for unsystematic thinking — doing all this prayer by rote, mumbling and not caring about the sense," said Mancia.

It could be argued that the congregants themselves are in a kind of denial, reciting their prayers by rote in search of redemption and turning away from themes inspired by Britain's changing society.

As well as a married priesthood, it can also use its own prayer books and rites, imported from Anglicanism.