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Ritualism
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What's The Definition Of Ritualism?
[n] exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
[n] the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies Synonyms | Synonyms for Ritualism: Related Terms | Find terms related to Ritualism: See Also | cultural anthropology | pattern | practice | social anthropology Ritualism In Webster's Dictionary \Rit"u*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. ritualisme.]
1. A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of
religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a
ritual.
2. Specifically :
(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of
England, who in the development of the Oxford
movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to
the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments
(altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.)
that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI.,
and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt
authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog
Encyc.
(b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the
Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this
party in the Church of England.
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