sentences:  As a symbolic activity, it is no longer confined to religion, but is distinguished from technical action.The shift in definitions from script to behavior, which is likened to a text, is matched by a semantic distinction between ritual as an "outward sign" (i.e., public symbol) and "inward meaning".The emphasis has changed to establishing the meaning of public symbols and abandoning concerns with inner emotional states since, as Evans-Pritchard wrote "such emotional states, if present at all, must vary not only from individual to individual, but also in the same individual on different occasions and even at different points in the same rite."