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Honouring unifying icons
Broader:
Preserving common religion
Narrower:
Sustaining sacred sociality
Signifying natural mysteries
Celebrating cosmic realities
Constrains:
Grounding myths in reality
Focusing attention on living out belief
Blocking degeneration to sterile ceremony
Constrained by:
Defining form of religious belief
Recalling ultimate context of religious symbolism
Facilitates:
Providing ritual symbols
Providing reminders of final reality
Providing raw materials for social myths
Introducing new aspects of social reality
Providing concrete medium for living out belief
Recalling stories of human struggle for meaning
Facilitated by:
Demanding concrete symbols of belief
Endowing religious symbols with meaning
Experiencing religious symbolism through rites
Subjects:
Individuation
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Symbols, myths
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies