Editing Incense (section)

===Religious===
{{main|Religious use of incense}}
[[File:Chinese temple incence burner.jpg|thumb|upright|Incense burning at a temple in [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]]]
Religious use of incense is prevalent in many cultures and may have roots in the practical and aesthetic uses, considering that many of these religions have little else in common.{{cn|date=April 2023}} One common motif is incense as a form of sacrificial offering to a [[deity]]. Such use was common in Judaic worship<ref name="smellsbells.com"/> and remains in use for example in the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches, Taoist and Buddhist Chinese {{lang|zh-Latn|[[jingxiang|jìngxiāng]]}} ({{lang|zh|敬香}}, 'offer incense [to ancestors/gods]'), etc. Different cultures have associated rising sweet-smelling smoke with [[prayer]] - communication directed towards a deity on high.<ref>
{{cite book
 |author1              = Holly Crawford Pickett
 |editor1              = Jane Hwang Degenhardt
 |editor-last2         = Williamson
 |editor-first2        = Elizabeth
 |date                 = 8 April 2016
 |orig-date            = 2011
 |chapter              = The Idolatrous Nose: Incense on the Early Modern Stage
 |title                = Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=JY_tCwAAQBAJ
 |publication-place    = London
 |publisher            = Routledge
 |page                 = 37
 |isbn                 = 9781317068112
 |access-date          = 16 April 2023
 |quote                = [...] the metaphor most often associated with incense in the Bible and early modern sermons is prayer, an invisible, sometimes private, and often silent communication with the divine.
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