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of, relating to, or used in the practice or worship services of a religion
a religious bookstore with an extensive stock of devotional literature
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More psychological study than devotional image, this work does not invite veneration so much as reflection on the actors’ motivations, anticipating later definitions of painting as a medium for pleasurable (rather than purposeful) contemplation.
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Christian K. Kleinbub, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2024
His other works further reclaim history through white-washed portraits of Black Civil War soldiers, collages that place Black people’s faces in confrontation with slave-holding white figures, and devotional scenes that refigure Black people into Biblical text.
—Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Flatscreen videos employed imagery related to medieval, Renaissance and Baroque devotional paintings.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
But this cannot prevent some pilgrims from criticizing the Saudi government’s management of Hajj, including its attempts to commercialize this devotional gathering.
—Ahmet T. Kuru, The Conversation, 9 July 2024
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Christian K. Kleinbub, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2024
His other works further reclaim history through white-washed portraits of Black Civil War soldiers, collages that place Black people’s faces in confrontation with slave-holding white figures, and devotional scenes that refigure Black people into Biblical text.
—Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Flatscreen videos employed imagery related to medieval, Renaissance and Baroque devotional paintings.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
But this cannot prevent some pilgrims from criticizing the Saudi government’s management of Hajj, including its attempts to commercialize this devotional gathering.
—Ahmet T. Kuru, The Conversation, 9 July 2024
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World & Nation Rebels seize Damascus; Assad reported to have fled Syria for Moscow Dec. 8, 2024 Syria is home to multiple ethnic and religious communities, often pitted against each other by Assad’s state and years of war.Sarah el Deeb and Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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Nonetheless, the schools that close overwhelmingly tend to be very small, caught in mismanagement or legal trouble, and/or religious.Derek Newton, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Participating in American commercial Christmas does not mean participating in the Christian faith and takes nothing away from our devout Christian friends who celebrate a sacred holiday.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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The nonprofit Apache Stronghold is challenging the mine on religious grounds, and this fall asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lawsuit filed to protect sacred Apache ground at Oak Flat, which Congress voted to trade to Rio Tinto to enable mining under it.Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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As the two compete to disprove the existence of the other’s passion, they get caught up in an encounter of both the spiritual and paranormal, imbuing both teenagers with powers beyond belief.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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Or at the very least, take some cues from Kwanzaa, invented in 1966, which established a tradition of giving modest, meaningful gifts to children, separate from (i.e. after) Christmas, with no Santa myth, and with some cultural or spiritual significance.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Advent is the start of the Christian church's liturgical year.Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 29 Nov. 2024
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Davis’s boss at the Beinecke introduced her to a 12th-century liturgical manuscript known as the Gottschalk Antiphonary, and Davis wrote her dissertation on it.Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
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“Devotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devotional. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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