“I never heard of any ritualist who considered any of his dearest practices in this light.”

“You are no doubt a ritualist, and your son has no doubt been educated in the same school.”

“He was neither a puritan, like the Essenes, nor a ritualist, like the Pharisees.”

“The priest performed the sacred rite of baptism, welcoming the child into the Christian faith.”

“Our ritualism lets each individual walk through everyday life with a shell of privacy and forbearance.”

“Many experiments have been conducted on the results of emotional stability from ritualism.”

“There may be ritualism behaviour which the subject feels compelled to carry out.”

“They wanted a traditional ritual that was nonetheless reflective of their nontraditional realities and desires.”

“This is my morning ritual. As soon as I awake, I boil water in a kettle and anticipate the first cup of green tea.”

“The priest performed the sacred rite of baptism, welcoming the child into the Christian faith.”

“Over the centuries, various ceremonies and rituals developed around the tradition of drinking wassail.”

“Still, one could say that all wakes are formulaic, rituals being a most popular and apparently effective means to deal with death.”

“Joseph offers a checklist of twelve rituals as part of the first stage or warm-up.”

“The Acholi tribe has sophisticated rites of forgiveness and reconciliation, a lesson to those of us in the West.”

“Ideally, the altar would be built in a walled garden where rites could be conducted in privacy.”

“He broke the white wafer into small pieces and placed one in his mouth, whispering the rites of Communion.”