Lacking background and context, all those props of communal identity, they are naked and vulnerable, even to each other.

They are the tourist lures, perhaps, but also the things that give a place its soul, its communal identity.

The festivals were more so a place to celebrate one's communal identity then to gather in a religious capacity.

The controversy also reveals what happens when a religiously and ethnically homogeneous town begins to feel a threat to its communal identity.

It represented a great classical past and the sense of a communal identity.

The songs may have been silly, melancholy, propagandistic and sentimental, but singing them helped Americans define a communal identity for themselves.

They want security for themselves and their communal identities.

In places like Scarsdale, school is communal identity.

Progressive forward thinking, a strong communal identity and a thriving local economy will.

Mining communities in general have a strongly egalitarian sense of communal social identity and an equally strong loyalty to their local environment.