Sentences with phrase «recognized symbolic meaning»

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As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

In other essays Bellah elaborates these points, both descriptively and normatively, by suggesting that modern culture develops an attitude of «symbolic realism» toward religion that recognizes the humanly constructed nature of religious symbolism and affirms the importance of such symbolism as a source of ultimate meaning and personal integration.

Nocturama doesn't so much recognize contradictions (sympathy and horror, abstraction and believability, a symbolic attack with no rational motive, etc.) as locate meaning in them.