... order to fit the modern society. To do this, sixteen official documents were produced from the four sessions of the Vatican II, including the 'Sacrosanctum Concilium' (Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy), the 'Nostra Aetate' (Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions) and the 'Lumen Gentium' (Dogmatic Constitution of the Church). These 16 documents were ... the validity of Church teachings in a foreign language was brought into question. This change in the language of Mass is recorded in the document 'Sacrosanctum Concilium' (Constituti...

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... as John Dunstable (1390-1453). A mathematician, astronomer and musician, Dunstable is recognized for his 60 compositions which strongly influenced composers after him. He is known for writing three voice sacred pieces, settings of antiphons, hymns and mass sections. Dunstable's music exemplified Renaissance music of the time in his preferences for scale steps, thirds, and his experimentation with rhythm. ... into play as well as new genres including: variations, prelude, fantasia, toccata, ricercare, canzona, and sonata. The genres provided more challenging approaches to playing than was...

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... in the areas associated with western religions. These differences can be seen, both in the way that the religious Hindus of India treat their sacred river, the Ganges in comparison with the way Western corporations are rapidly causing the deforestation of rainforests in third world countries throughout the world, ... found that the strong Hindu religion present in this area has a profound effect on the ecology there. The river is treated as a significant, sacred place for every Hindu because it symbolizes the cycle of life. The Hindu people living around this area also protect the spec...

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... few hundred people living self-sufficiently and still performing the rituals on an on-going basis. The Daime', as they came to call the sacred Ayahuasca drink, was the most important aspect of the religion and through the spiritual Works, the group learned to heal themselves so that ... taking the secret of the tea with them. The Spanish missionaries actually recorded the existence of a school of mystery and initiation where "the sacred brew was believed to be taken for the prophecies and foretold the coming of the white man and the end of the Inca civilization- ... angst and obsessive ...

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... the third largest of all religions, and it is a way of living according to the one understands of principles of Vedas and Upanishads. Veda is revealed knowledge, which are also a sacred writings of Hindus. The Vedas are reputed to be the most ancient in the world. They contain eternal unchanging truth, and the ... of the Vedas dominates the entire religious lives of Hindus. However, the philosophical content of Hinduism is in the Upanishads that these sacred texts reveal the search for unity in the heart of diversity. They deal with Atma and Brahman that is the soul and the Supreme Bein...

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... speaker through his melodramatic statement that if he could have hit his mistress, "Then [he] could have done violence to [his] dear parents/or savagely taken scourge to the sacred gods" (Amores 1.7.5-6). The incongruity between the literal violence the speaker committed against his mistress to the impossible, exaggerated act of whipping the gods not only trivializes Ovid's use of ... to "bonds", then deceptively continues to tell his mistress that engaging in sex with him will be a freeing experience for her. Donne's comparison of the carnal to the sacred, as seen when he writes, "Like...

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... in arms and does not have the ability to speak with any other human beings. He does not have the comfort of the gods, insofar as his treading on the sacred ground of Chryse and the snake which she sends to bite him causing his agonising wound, leaving him in constant pain and emanating a sickening smell. The stench and Philoctetes' constant ... and towards the Gods, to having great wisdom and from his suffering and an understanding of the divine that was present in the island the whole time. The island becomes a sacred place, as now Philocetetes sees Lemnos in a different light: he doe...

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... other discourses present. The title, for instance, can be easily attributed to the baby being a "white elephant", which is in North American culture, "not only a rare and sacred creature, but also a metaphor for an expensive and burdensome property" (Link 4). In Hemingway's iceberg principle, each sentence is important and this draws attention and emphasis to repetition more than ... money on travelling to a place where she can have an abortion, and the surgery itself. However, the girl can also be seen as a white elephant because she is rare and sacred to the man who must care deeply a...

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... ) This same Gothic style of teaware is also found in the assemblages of the working class sites and was perhaps used to "mobilize a 'sacred' meaning for this style so they could elicit the 'sacred' ties of morality and community when a friend stopped by for tea, ties that served to soften the blows of poverty."(Wall, 1999;113) Not ... ...

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... polished structure marks the point to which non-Hindu believers are banned from entering. The temple of Sri Ranganathar Swamy is supposedly the only complex in India with seven enclosures. A sacred symbolic number which for present day Shaivites, individuals who place their faith in the god Shiva, believe represents either the seven centers of Yoga, or a reference to the seven elements ... practice of moving clockwise along the perimeter of the central shrines follows the traditions of parikrama, the Hindu ritual of circumambulation performed by the Hindu worshipers who make pilgrimage ...

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... slaves and freemen, the latter being gor , including both gér and ñéño. The gér comprise the nobles and all freemen with no manual profession other than agriculture, considered a sacred activity. The ñéño comprise all artisans: shoemakers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, etc. These are hereditary professions. The djam , or slaves, include the djam- bur , who are slaves of the king ... . They would everywhere constitute the class of the wretched, able to acquire wealth only after the advent of money: profane wealth, which had not been foreseen by the traditional and s...

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... why it is important that foreign professionals should be aware of how communicating with Indonesians may be different to what they are used to. Indonesians believe that the head is a sacred part of the body, which is why it is rude for someone to touch another person's head in public. It is also important in the Indonesian culture that the left ... may create an unwelcomed atmosphere and a bad first impression. Even with a simple pat on the head is considered offensive in the Indonesian culture because they believe that the head is a sacred place on the body. Employees in workplace must...

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... 's disillusionment with traditional ideas of masculine identity and his rejection of the idea of just war shines through: "I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain...I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago...Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage ... ...

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... Muslims who use the content in the Qur'an "to attack Islam as an 'uncompromisingly paternalistic' and misogynistic religion that 'professes models of hierarchical relationships and sexual inequality', thus putting a 'sacred stamp ... onto female subservience' (Barlas 2). Though, there is debate around the idea that the Qur'an professes sexual inequality there are many valid points that can be argued against this ... of the Qur'an, one position that argues there is an obvious patriarchal hierarchy within Islam, which can be effectively argued, as well as an argument towards a misinterpre...

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... the other guy is your enemy even if he's actually your friend. I've been training to become a schizophrenic" (Konishiki 1988:61). Such statements go against the "traditional" of sumo as a "sacred" sport that is much more than simple "schizophrenic" fighting. In her attempt to explain the strange "foreignness" of Konishiki to her country mates, Japanese essayist Uchidate argues that Konishiki was ... after a lost match (1998:39-41). (11) Konishiki's behavior went against the canons of sumo (i.e. that it is a ritual-sport surviving from ancient Japan, and that it embodies honorable, chiva...

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... natural requirements in life which must be provided for, for example food, clothing, shelter, medical treatment and education. No one must be deprived of these primary necessities for he has a sacred right to them. On the question of economic planning, the supporters of the communist economic system declare that the planning and control of production to suit and serve the interest ... radical and thorough movement. The salient traits of some other economic systems are also integral part of Islamic Economic Order. Other rules and regulations are framed as envisaged in the Sacred Quran an...

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... ; sick constitutionally and functionally. Surgical treatment is often imperative. The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist. Human life is, indeed, sacred and inviolate. But the killing of a tyrant, of an enemy of the people, is in no way to be considered as the taking of a life. A revolutionist would rather perish a thousand ... the upper-class: "Demonstrate before the palacesof the rich; demand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right"(7) These remarks led to ...

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... backward toward the origins or archetypal appearances of things. This second movement, regression, is demanded by religious art generally, resulting from the opposition of an impure but symbolic present to a sacred, unfallen past. Such an opposition dominated Cather's life in various forms: Nebraska set against Virginia; the second generation of pioneers against their epic precursors; the New World against the Old ... interpretive regression involves the reader of Death Comes for the Archbishop whenever a symbol is deciphered or an allegory understood, whenever the surface of present ev...

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... so public opinion would be what the government said it was'. Mussolini gradually built up the legend of the Duce using his absolute control over the press. Politics became something sacred under Mussolini's fascist regime. His skill in propaganda and rhetoric was such that he had surprisingly little opposition. Dialect was banned and the Italian language had to be used. Mussolini ... his relationship with the Finzi-Contini children: in primo luogo eravamo ebrei. Their Judaism is what brings the narrator and the family together primarily and spoken as if it were sacred. It could be inter...

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... , family, or other individuals or possessions, it can be many things besides worship to a "god"" or "deity." It can be said then that it is whatever a person deems holy or sacred. To take the statement made earlier, that religion is norms, values, or a way of life to an individual or community. Now this is certainly true by taking a look at the ... of religion? For example we have texts in different languages i.e. in Hebrew for the Jews. So instead of saying religious language, it can be said to be language of the sacred not just the language itself. So what then is religious language? I...

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... they might be singing Catholic hymns there might be Indian icons or dances associated, and certain saints are coupled with ancient Indian Gods. The most sacred site in Mexico, the Virgin of Guadeloupe, is built on a hill sacred to the Aztec mother goddess and the picture behind the alter is one of the Virgin Mary yet with distinctly Indian coloring. Politically, Mexico ... ...

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"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so," founding father Thomas Jefferson expressed. "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness,"preeminent leader Gandhi voiced. "One has a ... ...

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... to "teach their daughters skills that will „take them anywhere‟" (Collins 126). According to Patricia Hill Collins, mothers of the African American decent try to provide the most sacred and strongest protection for their daughters and try to teach their daughters to love themselves for who they truly are in order to survive in the patriarchal society: "African ... ...

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... , imitating marble and masonry blocks. The second style of wall paintings, called the Architectural Style, is characterised by the portraying of three dimensional landscape scenery, Greek myths and depictions of sacred buildings and figures (Guillaud 1990:56). It is thus the three dimensional illusions and types of images which marks the distinction between the first and second style. A third style was ... ...

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... to the 1970's, there had existed a generalized consensus regarding American foreign policy. The protection of the American ideal of free persons, pluralism and the defense of liberal democracy had been sacred cows, but these principles had, in part, enmeshed the United States in the protracted and politically and economically disastrous war in Vietnam; the result of which had become a systemic skepticism ... ...

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