Contemporary sacred sexual rituals have been tagged as ' structured, symbolic, manifestation, ceremonies, tradition, everyday, habit, grounding, magic, solemn '.

Contemporary icons and rituals, however, have evolved to include elements reflective of Canada and the Canadian monarchy.

Contemporary rituals are carried out to mark special events in private lives, such as an individual's marriage or enlistment in a branch of the armed forces and, on public occasions such as the inauguration of civil and national leaders.

Contemporary Kumina Queens gave accounts of callings to Kumina, rituals and their work as Kumina queens.

Contemporary Pure Land traditions see Amitābha expounding the Dharma in his buddha-field ( Skt.

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Contemporary set theorists also study axioms that are not compatible with the axiom of choice, such as the axiom of determinacy.

Increased interest in modern a cappella ( particularly collegiate a cappella ) can be seen in the growth of awards such as the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards ( overseen by the Contemporary A Cappella Society ) and competitions such as the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella for college groups and the Harmony Sweepstakes for all groups.

Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.

Contemporary colloquial Cantonese has distinct loanwords from English, such as 卡通 " cartoon ", 基佬 " gay people ", 的士 " taxi ", and 巴士 " bus ".

Contemporary critics such as Webbe and Puttenham praised his poetic ability, and his verses were published in several poetry miscellanies.

Contemporary analysis distinguishes tangible, physical, or nonhuman capital goods from other forms of capital such as human capital.

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

Contemporary examples of modern German-style board games referred to as German-style, such as Acquire, appeared in the 1960s.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Contemporary hypnotism makes use of a wide variety of different forms of suggestion including: direct verbal suggestions, " indirect " verbal suggestions such as requests or insinuations, metaphors and other rhetorical figures of speech, and non-verbal suggestion in the form of mental imagery, voice tonality, and physical manipulation.

Contemporary literary theory, however, denies the attribution of such fixed meanings.

Contemporary developments in logic and the foundations of mathematics, especially Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's monumental Principia Mathematica, impressed the more mathematically minded logical positivists such as Hans Hahn and Rudolf Carnap.

The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- Easy Listening is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century ( typical artists include Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra ) combined with Big Band music and more modern performers in the same style such as Céline Dion and Josh Groban, while Adult Contemporary focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Contemporary Paganism, or Neopaganism, includes reconstructed religions such as the Cultus Deorum Romanorum, Hellenic polytheism, Slavic neopaganism ( i. e. Slavianstvo, including Rodnovery ), Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, or Germanic religious reconstructionism, as well as modern eclectic traditions such as Discordianism, Wicca and its many offshoots.

Contemporary charity is regarded as a continuation of the Biblical Maaser Ani, or poor-tithe, as well as Biblical practices, such as permitting the poor to glean the corners of a field and harvest during the Shmita ( Sabbatical year ).

Contemporary debates have centered on issues such as secularization, civil religion, and the cohesiveness of religion in the context of globalization and multiculturalism.

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.

Contemporary books are more likely to be set with state-of-the-art seriffed " text romans " or " book romans " with design values echoing present-day design arts, which are closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo ( a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces ), and Claude Garamond.

Contemporary Byzantine chroniclers note with a mix of terror and fascination that the " Scandinavians were frightening both in appearance and in equipment, they attacked with reckless rage and neither cared about losing blood nor their wounds ".

In the 1950s the museum increased its didactic performance, creating the Institute of Contemporary Art ( offering workshops of engraving, drawing, painting, sculpture, dance and industrial design ), the Publicity School ( presently Superior School of Propaganda and Marketing ), organizing debates about cinema and literature and creating a juvenile orchestra and a ballet company.

Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort is the second Disney Vacation Club offering in the Magic Kingdom Resort Area, following The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge which opened in 2000.

AMEB also has a Contemporary Popular Music ( CPM ) offering for Keyboard, Drum Kit, Guitar, Bass and Voice.

In 1982, LCDS began offering a BA Honours degree in Contemporary Dance, validated by the University of Kent.

Beginning at 6 a. m. on February 8, WYNY simulcast KIOI based in San Francisco offering an Adult Contemporary format ( now a Hot AC ).

Contemporary Hollywood talent agencies must now be licensed under the California Labor Code, which defines an agent as any " person or corporation who engages in the occupation of procuring, offering, promising, or attempting to procure employment for artist or artists.

Contemporary scientific research suggests that the majority of the human population is bisexual, adhering to a fluid sexual scale rather than a category, as Western society typically views sexual nature.

Contemporary scholars are particularly interested in his account of the third and fourth centuries, which depend upon sources, now lost, whose nature is fiercely debated.

Contemporary rock writer Robert Bixby stated that the sound of the MC5 was like " a catastrophic force of nature the band was barely able to control ," while Don McLeese notes that fans compared the aftermath of an MC5 performance to the delirious exhaustion experienced after " a street rumble or an orgy.

In order to accommodate the thriving nature of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, a new building is currently being erected at the Jubilee Campus for use in 2012 academic year.

; Contemporary adult instrumental: This term was suggested by Steven Halpern in the June 1999 issue of New Age Voice as an alternative catch-all label for music which is classified by retailers as " New Age ", but which is not expressly spiritual in nature.

Contemporary productions are also frequently experimental in nature, and may incorporate Western influences.

Contemporary Uruguayan culture is diverse in its nature since the nation's population is one of multicultural origins.

Although it may have elements of the former KCMG, KHHT had not tilted all the way back to Rhythmic Oldies or Urban AC as most of the music are in line with other soft-leaning Rhythmic Adult Contemporary outlets in nature.

Contemporary critics and authors applauded the song, calling it harmonically the most complex song from the Madonna album and complimenting the dance-pop nature of the song.

Contemporary crime including date rape following the use of hypnotic drugs such as Flunitrazepam show that little has changed save that where the intended offence is of a sexual nature, separate legislation applies ( see Sexual Offences Act 2003 ).