Thus we find that the Âra.nyaka age was a period during which free thinking tried gradually to shake off the shackles of ritualism which had fettered it for a long time.
On the other hand, the complications of ritualism were gradually growing in their elaborate details.
Since the scholars of Confucius's type specialized in the knowledge and conduct of ceremonies, Confucius gave ritualism a correspondingly important place both in spiritual and in practical life.
The continually increasing ritualism at the court of the Chou called for more and more of these men.
Low Church of the lower, than of the Ritualism of the upper, classes.
But his work as poet and painter prepared the world for ritualism in literature.
He, far more than Keats or Swinburne, was the prophet of that ritualism which has been a; dominant characteristic in modern poetry, whether it is the Pagan ritualism of Mr. Yeats or the Catholic ritualism of Francis Thompson.
All Brahmanical ceremonies exhibit, we may say, ritualism and symbolism run mad.
At any rate, it is ritualism rather than religion that is now promoted by the cathedrals.
It is maintained by some that the same tendency toritualism manifests itself in these Presbyterian cathedrals as in others, though, of course, not to the same extent.
It is one of the surprises of the census thatritualism fails to attract the non-churchgoing classes.
Why have so many of the descendants of the disciples of George Fox become so liberal and advanced as to be enamoured of silk dresses and laces and diamonds and the ritualism of Episcopal churches?
So they separated from the Established Church, and became what were called Nonconformists,--having not only disgust of the decent ritualism of the Church, but great wrath for the bishops and hierarchy and spiritual courts.
He appropriates Ritualism for Religion and it becomes his doctrine.
High Anglican Ritualism was to him the Chambermaid of the Vatican.
But the most pointed of his criticisms throughout this period are directed against Ritualism and in particular the use of the Confessional.
His own views in opposition to Ritualism are expressed with sufficient distinctness, and, when dealing with its favourite South African prelate and his attack on Dr.
That some of the ritualism to which the Jews were accustomed in Egypt should have been imported into their new ceremonial, is quite in accordance with human nature.
As the winter of unbelief lowers the stream of piety, the ice of ritualism accumulates along its banks.
For idolatries die everywhere; but everywhere a superstitious ritualism survives.
Another proof of how the spirit of ritualism tends to absorb morality.
Amos had contrasted the ritualismof the time with the duty of civic justice and the service of the poor:[759] Hosea opposes to it leal love and the knowledge of God.
Perhaps this is the most effective contrast in which Amos has yet placed the stupid ritualism of his people.
So in place of the frozen ritualism of the Church there broke forth from all lands of the Reformation, as though it were birds in springtime, a great burst of hymns and prayers, with the clear notes of the Gospel in the common tongue.
Spiritual draughts heal, while material lotions interfere with truth, even as ritualism and creed hamper spirit- 234:3 uality.
It is probably a result of this importance of the dream-world and of the identification of myth and ceremony, of religious belief and religious practice, that ritualism is so slightly developed among the Mohave.
The ritualism of the wilderness appealed to the senses and not to the heart; and this was necessary when the people had scarcely emerged from barbarism, even as it was deemed necessary amid the turbulence and ignorance of the tenth century.
In the ritualism which Moses established there was the absence of everything which would recall the superstitions and rites, or even the doctrines, of the Egyptians.
There is nothing absurd in ritualism among ignorant and superstitious people, who are ever most easily impressed through their senses and imagination.
There arose a danger lest even the moderateritualism of Deuteronomy should be perverted and exaggerated into mere formality.
The Deuteronomic Law did not as yet exhibit the concentrated sacerdotalism and ritualism which mark the Priestly Code, to which it is far superior in every way.
Certainly we find it hard to recognise the minister who proposed to put down ritualism by an Act of Parliament.
Take away the flattery which, mingled with occasional rebuke, forms the great ministerial spur, and both Revivalism and Ritualism would flag like flowers without 'the gentle dews.
Ritualism has from the first shown singular skill in party organization.
The tendency thus truthfully described furnished the seedling out of which grew the Monasticism of the past, and in which the Ritualism of the present finds its underlying cause.
Gradually episcopacy and ritualism became to his mind the mark of the beast.
Rose Pogonias He is no dissenter from the ritualism of nature; Asking for Roses nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ritualism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: celebration; cult; pedantry; preciosity; symbolism
