Ritualization

Cacciatore, whose fourth baby, Cheyenne, died in 1994, calls this a period of "ritualization," a time for parents to honor their child and to feel some semblance of control during an emotionally chaotic time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The French ruling on the banning of the niqab (the full face veil) together with the banning of minarets in Switzerland were some of the most stunning legislations to emerge from Western Europe in recent years, a sadly predictable response to the rise of a more and more publicly expressed ritualization of Islam which befuddles many in the Muslim diaspora too. ❋ MD Qanta Ahmed (2010)

Repeated recitation, canonization, rote ritualization, all are deployed to sear the martyrdom act into societal memory for maximal impact and manipulation. ❋ MD Qanta Ahmed (2011)

And the true terror of this new order has to do with its being ruled -- and obscurely felt to be ruled -- by sheer concatenation of profit and loss, bids and bargains: that is, by a system without any focusing purpose to it, or any compelling image or ritualization of that purpose. ❋ Daniel Little (2009)

Now, when it comes to ritualization, the Japanese are the ultimate fetishists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Either way, the ritualization of menstruation serves as a major context of gender identity formation for women in rabbinic culture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The question of Jewish identity hinges in fundamental ways on this ritualization of the sexed body, and it is here that sexed bodies are rabbinized. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We have to recognize that their ritualization of the Atheist experience is ostensibly religious in and of itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

*This is similar to what has been called ontogenetic ritualization: the co-shaping by individuals of a behavior over time, until even the very initial part of the behavior carries meaning for them. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

But I'm not talking about love; I'm talking about its annual ritualization. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The ritualization of remembering provides a time and method for thinking about the deceased. ❋ Ann Smolin (1993)