From a critical point of view, Solomon's building of a temple for YHWH should not be considered an act of particular devotion to YHWH, because Solomon is also described as building places of worship for a number of other deities ().

Sanctuaries were erected in various places and were used to express devotion to Yahweh by means of sacrifice, festival meals and celebrations, prayer, and praise.

This campus hosted a sanctuary for the cult of the deity that received devotion by travellers before their departure, especially by those who were going to face long and dangerous journeys to far places like Egypt, Greece or the East.

The shrine of her relics in Mugnano del Cardinale continues to be visited by pilgrimages from many countries, an Archconfraternity in her honour exists, as does popular devotion in various places around the world.

For many, the 1961 withdrawal of Pope Gregory XVI's 1837 authorization of liturgical veneration of Saint Philomena in a limited number of places ( which was not an official declaration that she never existed nor that she is not a saint ) merely means that the situation has returned to that existing before 1837, when in many places there was fervent devotion to her, accompanied only by vague speculation about the circumstances of her life and death or by belief in the revelations of the Neapolitan nun.

It is this focus on individual devotion and piety that places him within the realm of Pietism.

The faithful asked that indulgences be given for saying their favourite prayers, doing acts of devotion, attending places of worship, and going on pilgrimage ; confraternities wanted indulgences for putting on performances and processions ; associations demanded that their meetings be rewarded with indulgences.

The book places a high level of emphasis on the devotion to the Eucharist as key element of spiritual life.

The devotion of the Via Dolorosa, for which there have been a number of variant routes in Jerusalem, was probably developed by the Franciscans after they were granted administration of the Christian holy places in Jerusalem in 1342.

At the completion of the year he went with his parents on a pilgrimage to Assisi, Rome, and other places of devotion.

Labre, according to Catholic tradition, experienced a desire, which he considered was given to him by God and inspired by the example of Saint Alexius of Rome and that of the holy Franciscan tertiary pilgrim, Saint Roch, to " abandon his country, his parents, and whatever is flattering in the world to lead a new sort of life, a life most painful, most penitential, not in a wilderness nor in a cloister, but in the midst of the world, devoutly visiting as a pilgrim the famous places of Christian devotion ".

Predating Goldberg, the corresponding term in the UK was, and still is, " Heath Robinson ", after the English illustrator with an equal devotion to odd machinery ( although Heath Robinson's creations did not have the same emphasis on the sequential or chain reaction element ).

Because his uncle, from 1835 the Emperor Ferdinand, was weak-minded, and his father unambitious and retiring, the young Archduke " Franzl " was brought up by his mother as a future Emperor with emphasis on devotion, responsibility and diligence.

Specifically, the emphasis on religious and spiritual love, disinterestedness, mysticism, and devotion to Mary would explain " courtly love ".

Due to the Kagyu tradition's particularly strong emphasis on guru devotion and guru yoga, and the personal transmission of esoteric instructions ( dam ngag or man ngag ) from master to disciple, the early Kagyu tradition soon gave rise to a bewildering number of independent sub-schools or sub-sects centered round individual charismatic Kagyu teachers and the hereditary lineages as well as mindstream emanation lineages.

Although most Reeti works were outwordly related to Krishna Bhakti, their emphasis had changed from total devotion to the supreme being to the

The bhakti movement is eternal, but on Earth, in visible history, it began in South India and moved north, with an emphasis on devotion vs. ritual.

The treatment of Samkhya in the Bhāgavata is changed by the text's emphasis on devotion.

Other scholars refer to affinities with medieval traditions of Nirguna Bhakti ( Sanskrit = " formless devotion "), with a similar emphasis on universalism, equality and direct experience, and criticism of blind allegiance to religious ritual and dogma.

Beyond the emphasis on public ministry, the Odyssean tradition is characterized by the following: it is an Eclectic tradition in its origins that has a strong British Traditional Wicca style to its forms of organization and initiation ; although it emulates British Traditional the tradition's approach to ritual is more flexible and may often be less structured than many British Traditional Wiccans would be comfortable with ; the tradition rejects the concepts of Neopagan monism and Neopagan monotheism ; the tradition does accept the base-line Wiccan concept of Neopagan duotheism but does encourage students and seekers alike to choose to affiliate with a particular Pagan pantheon and encourages the devotion to a deity ( or group of deities ).

Una Voce members value the traditional Latin mass as direct link with the early Church and for conveying the mystery and majesty of God, but have been critiqued for elitism and for its emphasis on private religious devotion.

The regime promoted the perceived Spartan ideals of self-discipline, militarism and collective sacrifice, while Byzantium provided an emphasis on a centralized state and devotion to the monarchy and Greek Orthodox Church.

He was raised in an upper class Jewish family with a particular emphasis on devotion to Jewish learning, rational thinking, and an openness to secular learning.

" Still, according to Charles Tart, he " encourages his students to direct their devotion toward his teachers rather than toward him personally, even though most of Tibetan Buddhism puts tremendous emphasis on devotion towards one's teacher.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

The fact that the group orientation and group identification are founded on supernatural principles and nourished by the well-springs of devotion simply give them a deeper and more satisfying dimension.

Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.

:" A little later he built a church on his own ancestral property and served God with the utmost devotion.

Vows of chastity can also be taken by laypersons, either as part of an organised religious life ( such as Roman Catholic Beguines and Beghards ) or on an individual basis: as a voluntary act of devotion, or as part of an ascetic lifestyle ( often devoted to contemplation ), or both.

The Novena of Grace is a popular devotion to Francis Xavier, typically prayed on the nine days before 3 December.

But he died, on the 23rd of October 1867, in poverty, though his genuine kindliness and unselfishness, his devotion to his family and friends, and his rare modesty, endeared him to all who knew him.

As the historian Owen Davies noted, " while the Church was ultimately successful in defeating pagan worship it never managed to demarcate clearly and maintain a line of practice between religious devotion and magic ," and the use of such books on magic continued.

At Bologna, he was known as " il Tedeschino " (" the Little German ") on account of his devotion to Mozart.

Vathek ’ s hedonism and devotion to the pursuit of pleasure are reflected in the pleasure wings he adds on to his castle, each with the express purpose of satisfying a different sense.

... for her faithfulness and devotion, she has been immortalized in the literature of the South ; so the memory of her will never pass, but live on in the tales that are told of those " dear dead days beyond recall ".

In his two later-nineties films, he dwelt on different cultures ' experiences of violence, and on textual appropriations between cultures: a wandering Native American's love of William Blake, a black hit-man's passionate devotion to the Hagakure.

* Brahms by Malcolm MacDonald is a biography and discussion of virtually everything Brahms composed, along with chapters examining his position in Romantic music, his devotion to Early Music, and his influence on later composers.

At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September that year, Gandhi adopted his still evolving methodology of Satyagraha ( devotion to the truth ), or non-violent protest, for the first time.

With this, he proclaimed that devotion and practice based on the Lotus Sutra was the correct form of Buddhism for the current time.

The mantra he expounded on 28 April 1253, known as the Daimoku or Odaimoku, Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, expresses his devotion to that body of teachings.

( The Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus ), Nichiren added to the title the word Namu ( devotion to ), and declared on 28 April 1253, the chanting of the phrase Nam ( u ) Myoho Renge Kyo as his basic practice for revealing one ’ s Buddha nature in daily life.

The first medal of the Holy Face, produced by Sister Maria Pierina De Micheli, based on the image on the Shroud of Turin had been offered to Pius XII who approved of the medal and the devotion based on it.

The general devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus had been approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885 before the image on the Turin Shroud had been photographed.

Goldstucker tested the boundaries of Dubcek ’ s devotion to freedom of the press when he appeared on a television interview as the new head of the union.

The second, legitimacy based on charismatic leadership is devotion to a leader or group that is viewed as exceptionally heroic or virtuous.