Balinese farmers use the more comprehensive term persubakan to refer to the total domain of irrigated agriculture: its irrigation managerial, agronomic and agricultural, and religious-ritual dimensions.
We suggest that such a perspective aids in the investigation of larger social, economic, ritual, and environmental dimensions related to monument construction and use in the region.
This constant manufacture of controversy is a ritual whereby yet another dimension of Muslim life can be stereotyped, held up for public scrutiny and marked out as a problem that requires resolute political intervention.
In this perspective, modes of various practices of discourse should constitute an important dimension of ritual studies.
Training in ritual, li, takes on another dimension of importance in light of the situationist problem.
However, some monarchies still choose to retain an overtly religious dimension to their accession rituals.
Eliminating the radical voice of religion, retaining only the conservative dimension of theological doctrine and ritual scrupulosity, it would be difficult if not impossible to defend the role of religion in human affairs.
At Midsomer Norton, Evelyn became deeply interested in high Anglican church rituals – the initial stirrings of the spiritual dimension that later dominated his perspective of life – and he served as an altar boy at the local Anglican church.
From then on, the subaks and pekaseh focused on the religious-ritual and agricultural planning dimensions of irrigated agriculture, but left the more instrumental part of irrigation management to the WUAs.
Second, some chaplains would have attributed a stronger, more explicit, place to religious practice, considering, for example, that rituals should be viewed as an additional spirituality dimension.
