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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>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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 His notion based on sociobiological paradigm may seem today a bit outdated, but the importance of bodily positions and body manipulations during rituals stays in field of sight in study of religious ritual.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.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

    AA - Philosophy and religion

  • OECD FORD branch

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