It is commonly associated with legalism, but actually rejects legalism for ritualism.
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Vedanta, the logical conclusion to Vedic ritualism, focusing on mysticism.
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Ritualism is the acceptance of the means but the forfeit of the goals.
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They will impugn the ritualism or moral laxity of another church.
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Historical Vedic polytheist ritualism survives as a minor current in Hinduism, known as Shrauta.
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In the case of Hinduism orthopraxy and ritualism are conflated.
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Similarly, Zwingli would further repudiate ritualism, and break with the increasingly conservative Luther.
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This led to controversies within churches that ended up in court, as in the dispute about ritualism.
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Ritualism was important, and focused on daily prayers, Sunday Mass, and observance of two dozen holy days.
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The study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
Exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
(ritualist) a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies
Ritualism, in the history of Christianity, refers to an emphasis on the rituals and liturgical ceremony of the church, in particular of Holy Communion.
The belief that it is necessary for rites or repeated sets of actions to be carried out
The word "Ritualists" is the term now most commonly employed to denote that ...
Occurs when an individual continues to do things as proscribed by society but forfeits the achievement of the goals.
N. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
Devotion to the use of rituals and ceremonies above and beyond the call of sanity; often, an uncritical acceptance of rituals constructed in the past.