Indeed, some practices surrounding the devotion have been criticized as superstitious and as preying on people's fears, including the proliferation of a chain letter.
There can, additionally, be vagueness of the practices surrounding the use of the symbol to refer.
The Jesuits were, on the one hand, quite conventional, and they accepted the institutions and much of the practice surrounding them.
Similarly, Robert Horton suggests that engaging in magical practices surrounding healing can relieve anxiety, which could have a significant positive physical impact.
Animal rights activists maintain that many of the current practices surrounding chicken slaughtering are unethical.
This contrasts with the industrial practices surrounding egg-laying hens, which produce eggs for human consumption without being fertilized.
Information about the religious practices surrounding the Matres is limited to the stones on which their depictions and inscriptions are found, of which over 1,100 exist.
It has developed nuanced analyses of the practices surrounding social polarisation and exclusion and community and housing development.
The practice surrounding social clauses differs widely in the various Member States.
Mourning is the process of and practices surrounding death related grief.