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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Honouring unifying icons

Honouring unifying icons

Broader

Preserving common religion
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Worshipping-Idolizing
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Honouring-Dishonouring
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Narrower

Sustaining sacred sociality
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Signifying natural mysteries
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Celebrating cosmic realities
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Constrains

Grounding myths in reality
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Focusing attention on living out belief
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Blocking degeneration to sterile ceremony
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Constrained by

Recalling ultimate context of religious symbolism
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Defining form of religious belief
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Facilitates

Recalling stories of human struggle for meaning
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Providing ritual symbols
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Providing reminders of final reality
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Providing raw materials for social myths
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Providing concrete medium for living out belief
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Introducing new aspects of social reality
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Facilitated by

Experiencing religious symbolism through rites
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Endowing religious symbols with meaning
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Demanding concrete symbols of belief
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Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral strategies
Subject
  • Individuation » Symbols, myths
Content quality
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Language
English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024