Sentences with phrase «symbolic universes by»

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.

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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).

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.

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.

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.

Fascinated by the pursuit of the beginning of all things and using only four colours (white for purity, black for the origin and the end of all things, red for blood and life, gold for nobility), Li developed a distinctive visual language, which represented the symbolic image of the universe.