They are often paraded in academic, parliamentary or civic rituals and processions.

WaterFire is simultaneously a free public art installation, a performance work, an urban festival, a civic ritual and a spiritual communal ceremony.

Remote voting by way of the Internet would privatize one of our few remaining civic rituals.

What happened then, as it has in many towns this year, illustrates how important seemingly silly civic rituals can be to a community's sense of routine and identity.

Religious ceremonies were replaced by civic rituals that offered substitutes for religious enthusiasm.

So pervasive is beagle-mania here that it has managed to trivialize even the most solemn of civic rituals.

Adults exercise it through civic rituals, domestic routines, personal obsessions.

Half an hour or so later, he said beating up on the President appeared to have become a national civic ritual.

Let's start with some basics - more attention to American history and a greater emphasis of civic ritual.

To attract more voters by making the process more convenient, states are coming up with alternatives to the civic ritual of voting on Election Day.