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Ritual , Ritual
Citations in the Oxford English Dictionary from the fourteenth century on reveal two distinct trends of common usage for the words rite (ritua… De-Shalit, Amos , dead / ded/ • adj. 1. no longer alive. ∎ (of a part of the body) having lost sensation; numb. ∎ having or displaying no emotion, sympathy, or sensiti… Public Ritual , The study of ritual performed in communal life encompasses the wealth of world history and cosmology. Yet, few linguistic or conceptual categories of… Purity , Purity
Purity (Heb., tohorah) involves the state of being ritually acceptable. According to Leviticus 11–17 and Numbers 19, the three major causes of… Ritualization , ritualization An evolutionary process in which the form or context of an action is altered because it comes to play a role in social communication. F… Cults Of Affliction , Affliction, cults of. Cults and their associated ritual activities which deal with the occurrence of affliction, especially disease. The cause may be…
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