Sentences with phrase «symbolic events which»

Apocalyptic literature follows the pattern of a vision in which the author receives a call to write, and then describes, with highly cryptic imagery, a series of symbolic events which predict the overthrow of evil and the triumph of righteousness.

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These initial data can be described as elements of composition, symbolic in nature, which in historical events appear as fragments of the hierarchical configurations previously discussed.

The analysis of an historical event in terms of its plot forms and related symbolic transformations eventually leads back to the final phase of synoptic resolution, illustrated by a hierarchy of contrasting elements, through which the event was initially defined.

Of further significance, however, are the changes in the overarching symbolic environment within which these activities are taking place and the meanings which this environment imposes on life's events.

Verification concerns whether a particular symbolic form abstracted in the accusative mode is adequately descriptive of the event to which it refers.

At the same time, it is my contention, as it would be Emmet's, that the validity of the first two must be based on the assumption underlying the third, that is, that our symbolic forms must be thought to refer to real «things» or events to which we must respond and to which we are related according to the concept of rapport.

It is important to see that no individual or community comes to the moment in which the event and meaning are fused in witness without some existing symbolic tradition with which to express the meaning of this fusion.

Durkheim also was important to me in clarifying the point that ideologies are born in community and maintained there through regularly rehearsing those events that provide the symbolic paradigms through which members of the community understand themselves and their collective purpose.

Generally speaking, the marital separation of husbands and wives in marriage is a symbolic event — one which usually signifies finalization, a step in the process of divorce.

The event began with speeches and a ribbon cutting ceremony, which was followed by a presentation of a traditional Cantonese roast pig («siu yuk»), a Chinese ceremony for business openings as a symbolic offering of good luck.