Sentence examples for sacred activity from inspiring English sources

Other sacred activity includes initiation, sacrifice, and festival.

It is a sacred activity, too". But Scottish students had little idea who he was.

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

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

Surfing is a fringe sport with roots as a sacred activity of the Queens and Kings of the Hawaiian Islands.

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

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?

Americans, he says, have embraced individualism and consumerism and apply this ethic to their spiritual choices; they are greatly influenced by popular culture and increasingly look to film, television and the Internet as a source of spiritual authority; and they define religion very broadly, seeing many venues other than established places of worship as arenas for sacred activities.

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.