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Procession of Our Lord of the Miracle in Salta city.. A Holy Week procession is a public ritual march of clergy and penitents which takes place during Holy Week in Christian countries, especially those with a Catholic culture.
Processions played a prominent part in the great festivals of Greece, where they were always religious in character. The games were either opened or accompanied by more or less elaborate processions and sacrifices, while processions from the earliest times formed part of the worship of the old nature gods, as those connected with the cult of Dionysus and the Phallic processions, and later ...
Italy is known for the religious processions that take over towns big and small throughout the year when Catholic feast days are celebrated. Islanders young and old take part in processions ...
Pages in category "Religious rituals" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acerra (incense box)
Nagar Kirtan of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In Hinduism, Bengali saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu [3] propagated ideas of bhakti, or devotion to a personal God, through kirtan (collective recitation of hymns) and nagar kirtan (kirtan the in form of religious processions), [4] and is credited in the Vaishnava tradition with introduction of the custom. [5]
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While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations ...