Sentence examples for sacred activities from inspiring English sources

Myths are reenacted through rituals and other sacred activities.

During the 1960s, however, the usual definition of religion as those sacred activities which claimed a transcendent source was questioned by some empirical scholars.

In a world of "nones" where more and more people explore yoga classes, sweat lodges, natural surroundings, and other arenas as sacred spaces for sacred activities, who will define what counts as religion and what is secular?

Other sacred activity includes initiation, sacrifice, and festival.

The New Zealand Maori considered carving a sacred activity, surrounded by spiritual and physical dangers.

It makes us aware that our food is a gift and eating it with awareness in a sacred activity.

Marston believed that looking at women's bodies was a healthy, pleasurable and even sacred activity – and not just for men.

The clear imputation was that anything tech companies do is innovation, whereas all public agencies (of which courts are one) do is impose a brake on that sacred activity.

In return for a person's willingness to participate in this Holy War, described as a sacred activity, the Pope promised for those who took up arms against the "infidels" absolute indulgence, that is, total pardon for their worldly sins and remission from punishment in purgatory.

The main ritual roles in most major religious sequences were reserved for initiated men, and much secret-sacred activity excluded all others, but women had important roles in many religious activities.

The only commander in chief I want to vote for is the one who will turn that title over to the historians and cry out that war is an obsolete and monstrous game, revered and coddled for five millennia now as the most sacred of activities that a (male) human can engage in.