Sentences with phrase «symbolic universes»

Only if people register concern for questions about the meaning of life, the causes of suffering, and so forth does it make sense to emphasize the role of symbolic universes of any kind, let alone religion.

John's vision creates a single symbolic universe in which its readers may live for the time it takes them to read the book.

Research has also explored the question of whether the content of different symbolic universes tends to predict differences in more specific attitudes or lifestyle attributes.

Both of these approaches pay attention to the way in which societies create «symbolic universes by which to negotiate issues of identity, legitimacy and the creation or resolution of conflict.

Another study, also conducted in the San Francisco area, demonstrated that symbolic universes tend not to be applied with high degrees of consistency to different types of questions.

In defining symbolic universes Berger contrasts them with simpler levels of legitimation such as proverbs, maxims, and theories.

«5 Symbolic universes differ in scope from several other concepts that Berger employs to refer to understandings of more limited spheres

He defines symbolic universes as «bodies of theoretical tradition that integrate different provinces of meaning and encompass the institutional order in a symbolic totality.

The evidence thus tends to support the idea that in a pluralistic culture individuals are likely to draw on several different symbolic universes to cope with broad questions of meaning and purpose.

Religion is one type of symbolic universe.

The fact that individuals do not draw consistently from a single symbolic universe in constructing their personal worldviews has been taken, on occasion, as evidence that the basic concept of symbolic universes is faulty.12 This criticism, however, mistakenly confuses consistency with coherence.

On another dimension, though, symbolic universes are distinguished as being the most theoretically elaborate: they consist of whole systems or traditions rather than single theories or even simpler, more discrete statements such as an explanation or proverb.

Berger uses the term «symbolic universe» to refer to symbols or symbol systems that are concerned with providing meaning to reality in the most encompassing sense.

But there is a fundamental ambiguity in Berger's discussion of symbolic universes that has perhaps made his view of religion seem more rationalistic than it should.

Culturally, the symbolic universe produced by this experience of the Holy Spirit is personal and direct, and is not subject to priestly mediation (Alvarez, 1992, p. 87).

It challenges the hegemony of traditional religious world views, calls human beings to assume their rightful role in shaping history, and opens the door to a pluralism of symbolic universes.

Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, for instance, refer to it as the «symbolic universe,» The Social Construction of Reality (New York: Doubleday, 1966), especially 85 ff.

Like Peter Berger, whom he quotes, Habermas perceives a requirement for some form of symbolic universe — a sheltering canopy — to integrate the various systems of action in which an individual engages.

For Dokins, every experience is a trace, a psychic impression that creates a texture in our symbolic universe.

Ghosh has overwritten them with a quick hand in brown ink, as though he wanted to touch them in some space beyond their symbolism; as though he could scratch open the symbolic universe they circulate within.

In Adriano Costa's installation, From My Body Comes, Through Your Body Goes, an enigmatic composition by different materials, shapes, textures and colours broadens the boundary between art and non-art, precious and valueless, while what is considered as our commodity culture is transformed into a symbolic universe.