Where the body ends and symbolism begins
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F12%3A00060766" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/12:00060766 - isvavai.cz</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Where the body ends and symbolism begins
Original language description
In different religious rituals we observe a variety of bodily postures, some ritual-specific. Scholar of religion and sociobiology Walter Burkert pointed out that many of those bodily postures and gestures may have biological origin and function. His notion based on sociobiological paradigm may seem today a bit outdated, but the importance of bodily positions and body manipulations during rituals stays in field of sight in study of religious ritual. This importance is emphasized not only on symbolic level of rituals, but also on physiological level. In current study of ritual, those two levels are usually studied as interconnected. This approach comes from contemporary cognitive psychology, which accentuates the importance of embodiedness and extendedness of the cognitive system.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů