The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2012 page)

Ritualism
.

A movement in the Church of England in the late 19th cent., to adopt the ritual and Gothic ornament of the Roman Catholic Church. Attempts to repress it in the secular or church courts (on the basis of the Ornaments rubric) from 1869, and through an act of Parliament (1874), were not ultimately successful.

 
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see
SHE
ITAH
;
AL-HALAL
.

 
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see
RETROGRESSIVE RITUALS
.

 
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see
SACRED RIVERS, SEVEN
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Rizalistas
.

Members of religious movements in the Philippines which honour José Rizal y Mercado (1861–96) as divine, as the power of the
Holy Spirit
, as a second
Christ
, or as a new
messiah
who will return. Rizal was an intellectual, physician, novelist, and nationalist who was shot by the Spanish after the Philippines revolution broke out. Although not himself especially religious, he has become a national
martyr
and symbol of Philippine independence. Among the larger movements are Bathalismo (
Bathala
, ‘God’) claiming to antedate the arrival of the Spanish; Banner of the Race Church (Watawat ng Lahi) which resembles
Roman Catholicism
and awaits the return of Rizal; Sacred Church of the Race (Iglesia Sagrada ng Lahi) with its own ancient ‘bible’ kept secret until Rizal appeared as God on earth; Philippine Church or Adarnistas (after ‘Mother Adarna’ the founder) for whom Rizal was not executed but lives as true God and man; Patriotic Church of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 
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see
MILAM
;
N
RO CHOS DRUG
.

 
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