Sentences with phrase «religious symbolism such»

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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.

Such a suggestion is not out of line either with the logic of emergence or with the testimony of significant strains of religious symbolism.

It is equally common to approach a certain religious institution — initiation, for instance — or a religious act such as the orientatio, from the point of view of symbolism.

One speaks, for example, of the wheel as a solar symbol, of the cosmogonic egg as the symbol of the non-differentiated totality, or of the serpent as a chthonian, sexual, or funeral symbol, etc. (In like manner it is agreed that the term «symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 ff.

The aim of such studies is to disregard the socio - religious contexts of the respective institutions of behavior in order to concentrate on the symbolism that they imply.

This seems strange for a party that has so many religious members and voters, including Christian fundamentalists and evangelists, who might take such symbolism seriously.

Despite such rough, utterly profane surfaces, it is a spiritual tradition of abstraction that Martin's work draws from: Native American folklore, religious mysticism, anthroposophist symbolism, the landscape painting of North American romanticism — and the great melting pot of New York City itself, where Martin has lived since 1975.