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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Jewish observances, Religious holidays, Jewish holiday, Day of the Dead, Brit milah, Moveable feast, Palm Sunday, Shiva, Bar and Bat Mitzvah, Pidyon haben, Mothering Sunday, Immersion baptism, Assumption of Mary, Shmita, Lent, Easter Monday, National Day of Prayer, The Nine Days, Nativity Fast, Ryukyan festivals and observances, Seudat mitzvah, Store Bededag, History of Baptism, Trinity Sunday, List of Sindhi festivals, Muslim holidays, Asatru holidays, Zeved habat, Holy Wednesday, Scientology holidays, Crucession, Hakhel, Upsherin, Apostles' Fast, Easter Saturday, Royal Hours, Shalom Zachar, Evolution Sunday, Dydd Santes Dwynwen, Satanic holidays, Meskel, Easter Friday, Silence Day, Siyum, Vach Nacht, Amartithi, Yukka Nu Hii, Feast of the Holy Sovereigns, Zartosht No-Diso, Buhe, Virgen de los Angeles, Racial Justice Sunday, Earth Day Sunday, Church Fall Festival. Excerpt: Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or, if the immersion is total, baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion (pouring) and by aspersion (sprinkling), sometimes without specifying whether the immersion is total or partial, but very commonly with the indication that the person baptized is immersed completely. The term is also, though less commonly, applied exclusively to modes of baptism that involve only partial immersion (see Terminology, below) According to Lindsay, the majority view in the Christian church identifies three modes of baptism; immersion (the baptizand enters the water bodily and submerges their head), affusion (water is poured on a baptizand who may or may not be standing in water), and aspersion (water is sprinkled on the face). The view that distinguishes immersion from affusion and aspersion is found in standard Bible dictionaries such as Eerdman's Bible Dictio...