In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world, producing thus that idiosyncratic transformation in one's sense of reality to which Santayana refers in... Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science - Seite 53von Mark Turner Professor of English and Member of the Doctoral Faculty in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science University of Maryland - 2001 - 192 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Barbara G. Myerhoff - 1976 - 292 Seiten
...They are experienced rather than merely thought about when used in rituals. Geertz puts it this way: "In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as...imagined, fused under the agency of a single set of symbol forms, turn out to be the same world (1965:23). Because symbols are set in a ritual context,... | |
| David I. Kertzer - 1988 - 264 Seiten
...conceptions of the order of existence which they formulate for men meet and reinforce one another. In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world. . . . 35 Ritual not only structures our perceptions and suggests certain interpretations of our experience,... | |
| Riv-Ellen Prell - 1989 - 340 Seiten
...pray. The aesthetic aspects of ritual enable people to enter the altered world created by ritual, where "the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused...of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world" (Geertz 1973b, 112). Doing is believing. Seeing one's fellow "doing" is even more potent in making... | |
| Ira Chernus, Edward Tabor Linenthal - 1989 - 238 Seiten
...D. BENFORD and LESTER R. KURTZ* Chapter 5 Performing the Nuclear Ceremony: The Arms Race as a Ritual In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turns out to be the same world. —Clifford Geertz1 When humans are faced with difficult situations,... | |
| Gavin I. Langmuir - 1990 - 396 Seiten
...religious conceptions are veridical and that religious directives are sound is somehow generated. ... In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turns out to be the same world. . . . Whatever role divine intervention may or may not play in the... | |
| Catherine Bell - 1992 - 292 Seiten
...the order of existence which they formulate for men meet and reinforce one another." He goes on: "In ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turns out to be the same world."4' Here the simplest ritual activities are seen to "fuse" a people's... | |
| Daniel H. Frank - 1993 - 280 Seiten
...nature, self and society . . . their comprehensive ideas of order." 8 As he puts it elsewhere, "In ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turns out to be the same world." 9 Geertz seems to be making an important point about ritual, stressing... | |
| Jan. G. Platvoet, Karel Van Der Toorn - 1995 - 390 Seiten
...conceptions of the order of existence which they formulate for men meet and reinforce one another. In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined,...symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world, producing thus that idiosyncratic transformation in one's sense of reality to which Santayana refers [when he... | |
| Eva Louise Lillie, Nils Holger Petersen - 1996 - 264 Seiten
...conceptions of the order of existence which they formulate for men meet and reinforce one another. In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused under the agency of a single set of forms, turns out to be the same world, producing thus that idiosyncratic transformation in one's sense... | |
| Catherine Bell - 1997 - 368 Seiten
...about the nature of existence are fused with one's actual experiences of the realities of existence: "in a ritual, the world as lived and the world as...single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world."13 A similar formulation of the workings of ritual as a symbolic system is offered by the anthropologist... | |
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