Encyclopedia of Religion

interpretations by scholars with diverse theoretical approach- es. The most significant of these studies are Max Gluckman’s Ritu ...

with his initial effort, believing that he had not been suffi- ciently thorough, he began again. He published three vol- umes of ...

in Berkeley, California. In the catalogue Taylor identified several categories of religious art in America, but said that he fou ...

Last Judgment (1758), Divine Love and Wisdom (1763), Di- vine Providence (1764), Revelation Unveiled (1766), Love in Marriage (1 ...

the rituals for worship and the organizational structure were attracted to the message of the theology, rather than to the man w ...

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the cler- gy of the British Conference were trained through a tutorial system. ...

a man who used Swedenborg’s teachings on the correspon- dences of color and form to shape his spiritualized land- scapes. This c ...

General Church of the New Jerusalem.” Originally pub- lished in 1914, it has been revised six times since that date. The last re ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Block, Marguerite Beck. The New Church in the New World: A Study of Swedenborgianism in America. New York, 1932. Ev ...

First, in the mystery religions and famously among ad- herents of the Pythagorean sects, the term sumbolon desig- nates a partic ...

Neoplatonists understood that the transcendent principle of the universe, the One, radiated out from itself the whole of the uni ...

Romantic, the self-avowed psychological novelist Karl Philip Moritz (1757–1793) merits mention for drawing attention to dreams a ...

of diabolism. Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) also gave more popular form to the principles of Mallarmé by locating them within a Chri ...

Rather than viewing words as having meaning in themselves, he saw them as entirely relative to their context, where they both co ...

have had to acknowledge the significance of unconscious fac- tors in the formation of myths and symbols. Carl Gustav Jung (1875– ...

communication, calling human beings homo symbolicus. Su- sanne Langer extended the argument further, viewing sym- bolization as ...

to reduce all symbols to some repression of desire. (Ricoeur found Jung too obscure and difficult to follow.) To Freud’s “hermen ...

his essay “The Religious Symbol,” Daedalus 87 (1958): 321. Jacques Ellul’s The New Demons, translated by C. Edward Hopkins (New ...

temporal development and articulation of symbols within a symbolic system the figura. As the specific modality of the bond, a re ...

vital to the bond, and the bond becomes a creative condition of intentional life. In theological or religious language, the epig ...