sacralizing

This relativizing/sacralizing of actions is precisely why evangelicals are so successful in American politics.

D. Michael Lindsay, Ph.D.: Glenn Beck, the Faithful, and the Second Coming Ph.D. D. Michael Lindsay 2010

In his list of six primary features of martyr narratives, Marotti singles out two as uniquely Catholic: the "sacralizing of these sites of suffering and execution by means of Catholic prayer, sacramentalism, and ceremonialism" and "the occurrence of supernatural signs and wonders and the conversion of the bodies and body parts of the martyrs into saints' relics" 78.

Wheeler and Marotti on anti-Catholicism 2006

In his list of six primary features of martyr narratives, Marotti singles out two as uniquely Catholic: the "sacralizing of these sites of suffering and execution by means of Catholic prayer, sacramentalism, and ceremonialism" and "the occurrence of supernatural signs and wonders and the conversion of the bodies and body parts of the martyrs into saints' relics" 78.

The Little Professor: 2006

Joy spreads and sorrow spreads (659-60, 659) at Hart-leap Well and now here by the lakeside, as a further covenant formed of profane sacrifice and of memorializing, (re) sacralizing grief.

'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

It becomes a kind of diabolical sacralizing, a perverse or inverse deification of Hitler that makes us unable to gaze upon his face.

Paging Mary McCarthy! Barris and Hitler: Strange Triction 2002

This will include re-sacralizing Nature so that people come to see the Earth as alive and part of themselves.

Tyee - Home 2009

Once again here we see Goldberg slipping sacralizing concepts into political discourse.

Israel Palestine Blogs 2009

Fetolatry, the idolatry of sacralizing the conceptus / embryo / fetus.

AlbertMohler.com – Blog 2008

Their requisite mourning in turn implies that animal death, nature's "tribute of inevitable pain" (l. 841), is what provides the lasting basis for Wordsworthian dwelling and community in Grasmere's vale: first profaning violation (botched animal sacrifice, "murder"), then sacralizing compensation of human sorrow, and finally the hoped-for blessings of fellowship and dwelling such observance may bequeathblessings that, the poet and his sister hope, may extend beyond a solitary "pair seceding from the common world" to encompass "all the Vales of the earth and all mankind" (249, 256) .26

'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

"For some people this will be very unsettling," said Father Ken Smits, a Capuchin priest and liturgical scholar who is troubled by the move away from the vernacular to a more stilted, sacralizing "language.

Stubborn Facts 2010