Sentence examples for ritual concern from inspiring English sources

In "Tsukiji," a book about the Tokyo fish market, Theodore Bestor, a professor of anthropology and of Japanese studies at Harvard, writes that whales are an object of "ritual concern," mourned in special Buddhist services called kuyo.

And yet she was still like, 'I want you to go in the church and play these hymns.' " Mr. Douglas, one of the busiest trumpeter-composers in jazz over the last 20 years, grew up one of four children in a household that identified as Christian but acknowledged other systems of belief, from secular philosophy to Sikhism; his faith wasn't much of a ritual concern for him.

To the cult, but as private rather than as part of the temple cult, may be counted also the burial ritual, concerning which, unfortunately, little is known.

"Gobbledygook" is inspired by "the curiously anthropophagous ramaga or 'blue bloods' of Madagascar, the gaki or 'hungry ghost' of Buddhist mythology, and the Japanese folk tale Jugemu" and incarnates "an imaginary version of the Buddhist segaki ritual concerned with personal atonement and easing the suffering of the wandering dead".

The bulk of the rituals concern preparing for and conducting the daily offerings of libations for the idol, including a recitation of a ḥtp-dỉ-nsw formula, and purifying and sealing the shrine at the end of the day.

There are several traditional rituals concerning children under 3 years in Indonesia, including the traditional ceremony for pregnant mother, rituals for newborn and baby, slinging tradition, traditional food, traditional games and arts, traditional tales and art shows.

One thing I didn't tell you earlier about my morning rituals concerns my most treasured physical possession: my page-a-day cat calendar.

Traditional Yakö ritual is concerned with sacrifice, invocation or control of spiritual beings, and divination.

The word taboo has been applied to those rituals that concern something to be avoided or forbidden.

The Sen Huen ritual is concerned with maintenance of the institutionalized system of Tai Dam belief in ancestral spirits.

There were also guidelines describing how banquets were to be set up, as well ritual instructions concerning funeral rites, immortality practice and petitions.