(n.) The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.
(n.) Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.
(n.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.
(n.) Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
Example Sentences:
(1) The feedback I have had reveals how accepting people are of different cultures and religions.
(2) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
(3) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(4) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(5) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(6) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(7) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(8) In many of the special nursing homes for aged, not a few aged women practiced activities uniquely associated with traditional religion on strongly reflecting the fact that endemic religion is deeply embedded in their thinking.
(9) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(10) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(11) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(12) He said the planned commission on multiculturalism would not threaten anyone's culture or religion.
(13) But flat-out discrimination based on religion or ethnicity or country of origin has never served us well.” The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, has welcomed Trump’s move, but questioned what Turnbull had to give to secure the new administration’s backing for the refugee resettlement agreement.
(14) While there was a slight tendency for responses to be affected by socioeconomic status and religion, the results were not statistically significant, as was true for the level of injury to the child.
(15) They may be considered blasphemous by some, but banning speech based on criticism or so-called defamation of religion is incompatible with international human rights standards.
(16) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
(17) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
(18) Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment seems to be close to the jewish religion.
(19) All of this has been accompanied by ideological tightening across academia, religion, even state media and officialdom itself: a sort of sterilisation of the environment.
(20) Some of this stems from confusing spirituality with religion.
Shaman
Definition:
(n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
(2) The shaman is a specialist in producing and managing altered states of consciousness.
(3) • Mayan shamans took part in a ceremony to mark the end of the Mayan cycle and the start of the new age in the ancient Mayan site of Tikal, 350 miles (560km) north of Guatemala City.
(4) Accessible to non-specialists, the system conveyed by these recitations acts to validate shamanic intervention as a significant and intelligible activity.
(5) Shamans themselves have adapted their politics, diagnoses and symbolic actions to an increasingly cold social climate.
(6) This discussion reveals those aspects of the shaman's experience that render her more, rather than less, like those she treats and suggests a process whereby the shared reality of shaman and client is realized in lived experiences, rituals, and conversations.
(7) Psychotherapeutic management of a potential spirit medium (shaman) in a modern University Hospital setting in Malaysia is described.
(8) Using their oral texts, shamans effectively reproduce worlds that require shamanic interventions.
(9) I went to Peru to Machu Picchu and did ancient shamanic ceremonies to cleanse myself after I eventually realised why I couldn’t let her go.
(10) The pharmacological effects of the alkaloid on the human body are shown to have informed shamanic therapeutic practices and beliefs.
(11) This time, the insecure, anxious Howard Moon (Barratt) and the self-assured, narcissistic Vince Noir (Fielding) work in a second-hand shop owned by their shaman friend Naboo (played by Michael Fielding).
(12) However, the shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) can be differentiated physiologically from possession trance states.
(13) Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism.
(14) In the postshamanic culture derivatives of shamanism and non-inspirational healers (naturalists) are active.
(15) The shaman may also be medically active when his expert knowledge of the supernatural disease agents is called for.
(16) Differences included more complex theories about illness, greater number of folk practitioner types and greater differentiation of the shaman role (i.e.
(17) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(18) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(19) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(20) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.