...Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The... ...eryone else in the congregation seemed to work up enormous enthusiasm. The liturgical churches — Lutheran, Catholic, Episcopalian (the name given to t... ...seemed to work up enormous enthusiasm. The liturgical churches — Lutheran, Catholic, Episcopalian (the name given to the Church of England in the Unit... ...eaders will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food and cl... ...bol, namely the Host which represents the physical presence of Christ in a Catholic church. (The Host is a consecrated bread wafer which according to ... ...lls the myth of the White Buffalo Woman who brought the Sioux their sacred rites, as well as the sacred pipe which became for the Sioux their “portabl... ...ich became for the Sioux their “portable alter” which was used in all holy rites ever after. At A CHORUS OF POWERS: AMERICAN INDIAN BELIEF 189 the st...

...em towards listening. Meantime, so far as I am acquainted with these Roman Catholic demurs, the difference between them and my own is broad. They, wit... ...hich in England is always read at burials. 10 Lastly came that magnificent liturgical service which the English church performs at the side of the gra... ...fect. One part of the effect from the symbolic is dependent upon the great catholic principle of the Idem in alio. The symbol restores the theme, but ... ...as travelled back into thy fold; this altar, which once reeked with bloody rites to Cortho, has long been rebaptized into thy holy service. The darkne... ...is homage, having so often been made to bow and bend his knee at murderous rites. In a service of religion he may be timid. Let us try him, therefore,... ... tutelary deities of such a state. These deities might be lured by certain rites and brib- eries into a transfer of their favors to the besieging army... ...ry’s governess 1 that she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who ...

...URE XIX OTHER CHARACTERISTICS Aes- thetic elements in religion—Contrast of Catholicism and Protestantism— Sacrifice and Confession— Prayer— Religion h... ... sexuality. It reminds one, so crudely is it often employed, of the famous Catholic taunt, that the Reformation may be best understood by remem- berin... ...s phenomena, some are undisguisedly amatory— e.g., sex-deities and obscene rites in polytheism, and ecstatic feelings of union with the Savior in a fe... ...ractice shows the degree in which our experience is spiritual and divine.” Catholic writers are equally emphatic. The good dis- positions which a visi... ...t incrusted work of jewelry or architec- ture; one hears the multitudinous liturgical appeal; one gets the honorific vibration coming from every quar-...