Prayers And Sacrifices
Scope Note
Practices reflecting a sense of dependence and a desire to ingratiate or influence the supernatural; repudiation and intimidation; obeisances (e.g., bowing, genuflection); laudation; prayer; sacrifice (e.g., libations, food sacrifices, animal and human sacrifice, symbolic and vicarious sacrifices); vows; burning of incense; decoration of religious edifices; endowing of shrines and temples; etc.
History Note
The term was changed from "Propitiation" to "Prayers and Sacrifices" in 2000.
- Broader Term
- 780 Religious Practices
- Related Terms
- 533 Music
- 576 Etiquette
- 730 Social Problems
- 740 Health And Welfare
- 764 Burial Practices And Funerals
- 769 Cult Of The Dead
- 778 Sacred Objects And Places
- 788 Ritual
- Use Fors
- Autosacrifice (as a form of worship)
- Blessings (prayer)
- Bowing (obeisance)
- Caches (offerings)
- Candles (religious propitiatory use)
- Censers, use of
- Chanting (prayer)
- Endowments (atonement)
- Flaying (as part of sacrifice)
- Genuflection (gesture of reverence)
- Gods (repudiation)
- Human sacrifice (general)
- Incantations (prayers)
- Incense (use in prayer)
- Litanies (prayers)
- Massacres (sacrifice)
- Oaths (religious)
- Obeisances (religious)
- Prayers (general)
- Propitiation (in religion in general)
- Ritual laudation
- Sacrifice (human)
- Sacrifice (religious)
- Shrines (endowing of as sacrifice)
- Temples (endowing)
- Vows (prayer)
- Identifier
- 782
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