Picking up a new, more positive habit won't make your old one disappear, but a new ritual and source of pleasure can make the old one easier to break.
Instead, writes Reddy, it is the source of "ritual power and sacred legitimacy".
The annual ritual is a reliable source of controversy in the Capitol, with Republicans accusing Democrats of preventing a transparent review of the budget.
After the Ottomans conquered the Byzantine lands, Greek communities were usually the source of ritual murder charges against Jews, often at times of social and economic tensions.
This trend of lining up upends years of theatergoing ritual, and is crowd-sourcing at its worst.
This section, while predominantly made up of spells and rituals, is also the source of most of the myths and folktales contained in the text.
They are made to perform rituals that are a source of worry and stress to them.
5 We were unable to confirm a decline or otherwise of initiation rituals from published sources in Colombia.
The cattle, sheep, and goats that are kept are used more for marriage payments and ritual sacrifices than as a source of food.
Certain rabbinic sources interpret the ritual as guarantee of protection against the evil eye, while others interpret the custom as a reminder to God of the holiness of Isaac and his father Abraham, founder of the Jewish people.
