Sentences with phrase «symbolic universes as»
He defines symbolic universes as «bodies of theoretical tradition that integrate different provinces of meaning and encompass the institutional order in a symbolic totality.
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He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt factuality, an atheist.)
In defining symbolic universes Berger contrasts them with simpler levels of legitimation such as proverbs, maxims, and theories.
The final component in Berger's argument focuses on religion, which he identifies as a type of symbolic universe.
The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.
On one dimension, symbolic universes are distinguished as the most encompassing: they embrace and integrate all segments of reality, all institutional or biographic spheres, rather than being limited to a single or narrow aspect of reality.
79 They derive from an attempt to provide «alternative symbolic universe» as a cultural reaction to the peasants» situation.
As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.
If the «will of God» is understood as a symbolic way of saying «the way things are» (the nature of reality in an orderly, cause - and - effect universe), the profound significance of this step becomes clear.
To see the universe as a whole in this way with the same God working in the universe at large, in the life of Jesus and in our lives was put in highly symbolic language by Paul in his letter to the Colossians about the Cosmic Christ.
To see the universe as a whole in this way, with the same God working in the universe at large, and in the life of Jesus, and in the lives of all of us, was put in highly symbolic language by the apostle Paul in his letter about the «Cosmic Christ» in Colossians 1.
These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.
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.