 Religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the...  Gaining Power and Control Through Diversity and Group Affiliationefter Rick Houser, MaryAnna Domokos-Cheng Ham - 2004 - 158 sidorIngen förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Louis Schneider, Charles M. Bonjean - 1973 - 172 sidor
...significant zone ("Religion," "State," "Ancestral sphere," etc., ) that, in Geertz's well-known terms acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men for formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such... | |
 | William G. McLoughlin - 1978 - 260 sidor
...Finally, we come to Geertz's definition of religion — a definition that is intrinsic to this essay: "Religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish...pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such... | |
 | Gail Minault - 1982 - 332 sidor
...accept them" (p. 27). Clifford Geertz, in "Religion as a Cultural System," has defined religion as "a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful,...pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence, and clothing those conceptions with such... | |
 | E. Valentine Daniel - 1987 - 340 sidor
...substitute for the Peircean sign, the indexical function in religious beliefs is clearly brought out: "Religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish...pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such... | |
 | Alex Weingrod - 1985 - 390 sidor
...the religious experience par excellence, conforming closely to Geertz's definition of religion: "A religion is: a system of symbols which acts to establish...pervasive and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such... | |
 | David D. Laitin - 1986 - 266 sidor
...message and in the bias which that revelation gives to life."4 In that essay, Geertz defines religion as a "system of symbols which acts to establish powerful,...pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - 1986 - 300 sidor
...redefined. Put alongside Geertz's definition of culture his definition of religion. Religion, he writes, is "a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful,...pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations ... by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with... | |
 | Paul O. Ingram, Frederick J. Streng - 1986 - 260 sidor
...Ibid., p. 393. 4. For instance, the following is Clifford Geertz's definition of religion: "A system ot symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such... | |
 | Brian Morris - 1987 - 386 sidor
...religion in these terms, implying that it has a universal function to provide such meaning. He writes, A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish...pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such... | |
 | Felicitas D. Goodman - 1988 - 212 sidor
...worship. (Paraphrased in Lessa and Vogt, 1965: 21) Clifford Gecrtz suggests a normative formulation: [Religion is] a system of symbols which acts to establish...pervasive, and longlasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such... | |
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