sacralization

Among his many salient points: "however tempting it is to depict (that is, to transcode) the religiosity of resistance, insurgence, and attack as the sacralization of proper (economic) politics, that depiction cannot escape from becoming a parochial account that depends on an a priori distinction between religion and politics and on the separation of church and state" (747).

Notes on 'Introduction' 2008

Feminists have also created new rituals to mark the birth of boys, in addition to circumcision, in which the male organ is not the center of attention or sacralization.

Ritual in the United States. 2009

It was a politics that rejected as falsely optimistic (if not self-interested) approaches like Stephen's, which posited women's sexual consent and consent to marry as sufficiently unproblematic, and the sexes 'common interest in revitalization of Spirit as sufficiently strong, to permit immediate resolution of sex-class conflict through communal cooperation and the sacralization of feminine nurture. 47

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

The office, including its sacralization through those traditions of process, is greater than either.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Can You FOIA to Find Out If You Have Been Reported to the White House? And What is the ACLU’s Position? 2009

Roughly, Protestantism is all about the ‘disenchantment of the world’ and Catholicism is about magic and sacralization.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Books 2009

The office, including its sacralization and legitimation through those traditions of process, is greater than either.

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Addendum to My FOIA-ACLU Post, or, La Trahison des New Class: 2009

Harline begins and ends his book [Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl] with Super Bowl Sunday, an event that in its rituals, prayer breakfasts, helmeted heads bowed during the invocation, represents the sacralization of the secular.

mjh's blog — 2007 — June 2007

There is no analogous sacralization of the female body in traditional Judaism.

Ritual in the United States. 2009

Most world religions express it through taboos of food, body, and sex, and in rituals of de-animalizing purification and sacralization.

inkblurt · Moral Dimensions 2007

A big noise was caused by a publicized Concept of celebration, adopted by the city administration, which included a strange passage saying that one of the goals of the whole festivities is “sacralization of Astana” - and a week before the Day X, the parliament made July 6th a state holiday!

Kazakhs Ambivalent about Capital's Anniversary 2008