Sentence examples for ritual constitutes from inspiring English sources

Thus mystery ritual constitutes a tradition that extends, in varying form, from Archaic Greece to our own day.

Ritual constitutes an important part of what ren is, and hence it is not merely an instrument for refining the substance of ren.

This ritual observance constitutes part of the calendar of regular rites within the household and monastery.

He promises that at his death, the ritual will constitute his last performance piece.

She had taken a strong stance this year in supporting legislation to safeguard the right of parents to circumcise their male children, after a regional court in Cologne ruled ritual circumcision constituted bodily harm to minors.

Their life together is replete with the cozy, passion-killing rituals that constitute domesticity.

The construction of this panorama takes nine days, a period that constitutes a ritual novena of prayer and devout action.

This, though, is part of the charm: the chance to bear witness, in real time, to the ritual of patience that constitutes expectant motherhood on a window ledge high above Manhattan, through rain, cold and feather-disheveling winds.

Indeed, many of the gongs that constitute ritual paraphernalia and heirloom property among the remote interior peoples not only of Brunei but also of Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo are of Bruneian origin.

Running through the great complex of beliefs and ritual practices that constitute Hinduism is the conviction that the soul or self (atman) is subject to samsara i.e., the transmigration through many forms of incarnation.

A case in point are the photographs of tiwah, a sumptuous celebration which constitutes the climax of the ritual for the dead among Ngaju Dayaks, a tribal people of southern Borneo (now the Province of Central Kalimantan).