To better understand the effects of collective rituals in vivo, Fischer and colleagues investigated interactions between sacred values and levels of synchrony among nine religious and secular groups whose ritual participants varied in their levels of behavioural synchrony and declared sacred values.
It's a poem in which the satisfactions of belief are rediscovered and converted into a language that appeals on many levels, sacred and profane.
In a second survey, participants were asked to state how strongly they agreed with statements like "my relationship with my partner is holy and sacred", by rating levels of agreement on a nine-point scale (with nine indicating very strong agreement).In this section Monkey business?
This is a new perspective for a city to offer in its midst -- a sacred space below sea level yet open to the sky.
Many believe that eBay has violated the sacred tenet of the "level playing field," which its founder, Pierre Omidyar, established as one of the company's basic principles.
It can be an unpractical thing to perform live, but in this way you can appreciate its intimate parts, at the level of sacred conversation, as well as its grand scale".
True, it is rare for a marriage to transcend the pedestrian and arrive at the level of sacred marriage, in which a dimension beyond the mechanical is reached, and the mystery of life and love is explored together.
By requiring worshippers to observe Islamic dress in their own sacred place, the high-level visit illustrated the second-class status of Zoroastrianism - believed to be the world's oldest monotheistic faith - in its land of origin.
The tall, totem-symbol-pitcher order that aquamanilia had to fill required sculptural force, high levels of sacred or chivalric meaning and not just hollow interiors but also handles, openings and spouts or spigots.
The team hypothesised that rituals with higher levels of body synchrony and higher levels of reported sacred values would be associated with the greatest amounts of solidarity, as measured by a standard economic game and a battery of explicit scales.
