"The amendment's sponsors stated that it was an instrument to allow verbal prayer in schools".
"The legislative history confirms that the amendment was passed to return verbal prayer to the public schools," wrote Judge Duhé, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Should a verbal prayer be removed from the beginning of the meeting, perhaps replaced with a moment of silent prayer?
In this article the terms "rituals" and "performative rituals" are used to designate verbal charms, prayers, ligatures, amulets, as well as physical gestures and sequences of actions utilizing special objects, as explained below.
In any case, the sacrificial act generally precedes the verbal act of prayer.
They also said that Mr. Abu Ghaith was not permitted to speak to or pray with other inmates, and that a "loud verbal call to prayer" he made resulted in a reprimand because jail officials "deemed it to be prohibited communication with other inmates".
When the sails of Christopher Columbus's ships rose above the horizon on October 12, 1492, the peoples of what the Europeans would call the New World possessed their own forms of artistic verbal expression: from prayers, hymns, and myths to theatre of various kinds.
For those who used reminders, they cited alarms, meal times, mobile phone beeps from close ones, personal verbal reminders by individuals, and prayer times for Muslims.
At the center of this verbal whirlpool, spinning out stories, prayers, lists, tongue twisters, letters, taxonomies, lectures, vignettes, aphorisms, dreams, confessions, diatribes and farces, a manifestation of the real-life author is fragmented into three personalities: "I'm not a person, I'm two or three people at the same time.
In that verbal flow, "genius" recurs like a pious prayer.
Ritual sequence is composed of specific "actions," including verbal actions (e.g., singing odes and reading prayers) and non-verbal actions (e.g., waving lamps and walking around statues).
