Sentence examples for ritual performance from inspiring English sources

This religion cannot get away from sacramental practice, symbolic action, ritual performance.

These include a fascination with ritual, performance, religion, transcendence and, of course, violence.

One of the fundamental Confucian values that ensures the integrity of ritual performance is xiao (filial piety).

For instance, the principal aim of the components called Śrauta-sūtras ("Revelation sutras") is to provide instructions about ritual performance.

The texts constituting the Kalpa-sutras (collections of aphorisms on the mode of ritual performance) are of special importance.

In a masterly hunting scene that looks like a ritual performance, athletic men in the nude are seen racing.

Works on astronomy (jyautiṣa) serve to assist in determining the appropriate times for ritual performances.

Presentations and ritual performances seem to have been common in India from earliest times.

Very detailed rituals regulated the sacrifices, and the interpretations of the ritual performances in the cultic commentaries were rather different and sometimes very strange.

In an extensively illustrated book that features sixteen color plates, Laura Weigert examines the role of these tapestries in ritual performances.

If ball games were contests rather than noncompetitive ritual performances, such as the Japanese football game kemari, then they were sports in the most rigorously defined sense.