What's the difference between ceremonialist and ritualist?
Ceremonialist
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Ritualist
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(n.) One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
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(1) The main therapies are i. suggestion, auto-suggestion, hynotism, assurance, persuasion, and ritualistic therapy; ii.
(2) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
(3) Their condemnation of inquiring journalism is age old, almost ritualistic.
(4) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
(5) It's unusually intuitive, for a ritualistic process, but the question left hanging is: why celebrate both?
(6) An established obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in a twenty-six-year-old woman, characterized by obsessional fear of rat germs and ritualistic cleansing, was observed to worsen during pregnancy.
(7) Significantly more positive changes in behavior problems were reported for the experimental group than for the control group (untreated group) in each of the four symptom categories assessed (disturbances in perception, in speech and in social interaction and obsessive-compulsive or ritualistic behavior).
(8) Benzecry skillfully uses the colours in his giant orchestra to depict nature, water, evocations of forests, thunder, as well as ritualistic dances.
(9) We describe two patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS) and disabling obsessive-compulsive and ritualistic behaviors who underwent bilateral radiofrequency anterior cingulotomy.
(10) After daily ingestion, ritualistic vomiting by male Achuar Indians, better known as Jívaros, reduces excessive caffeine intake, so that blood levels of caffeine and biotransformed dimethylxanthines do not cause undesirable CNS and other effects.
(11) There are the priestly Jungians who might be considered 'classical' Jungians who have almost ritualistically tried to recreate what he represented, even bringing in the Swiss cultural background.
(12) Fred Goodwin has been ritualistically stripped of his knighthood – and that's about it.
(13) With his inquiry team reaching its first conclusions, which are due to be unveiled in detail in September, he told the Guardian: "The central issue is how do we release more land in this country – a country that has developed urban containment to ritualistic proportions and in a country that devotes more land to golf courses than it does to homes.
(14) The ritualistic manner, closeness of events in time and absence of serious exogenous factors suggest the term 'family suicide'.
(15) During her tenure as the chief inspector of social work, she oversaw investigations into allegations of ritualistic sex abuse in the Western Isles and social services’ failure to monitor Colyn Evans, a teenage sex offender who grew up in care and went on to kill 16-year-old Karen Dewar in Fife.
(16) It is concluded that, not-withstanding these problems, casuistry represents a promising alternative to the regnant model of 'applied ethics' (i.e., to the ritualistic invocation of the so-called 'principles of bioethics').
(17) The purpose of this study was to examine the stress responses of parents to the sexual and ritualistic abuse of their children in day-care centers.
(18) The number of cases of religious or ritualistic abuse of children reported to Scotland Yard has increased year-on-year over the past decade.
(19) First, TM patients reported a significantly greater degree of pleasure during hair-pulling than OCD patients reported during performance of ritualistic behaviors.
(20) Obsessive preoccupation with images of food as well as ruminative calorie counting, and ritualistic behavior regarding food, use of laxatives, and vomiting, together with an underlying focus on control, undoing and other obsessive-compulsive defenses, and a sado-masochistic orientation to the body all point to an essential obsessive-compulsive disorder.