• DOI:10.33356/TEMENOS.4779
Corpus ID: 143060201

Space, body, and the notion of boundary : A category-theoretical approach to religion

@article{Anttonen2005SpaceBA,
  title={Space, body, and the notion of boundary : A category-theoretical approach to religion},
  author={V. Anttonen},
  journal={Temenos},
  year={2005},
  volume={41},
  pages={185-201}
}

• V. Anttonen
• Published 2005
• Sociology
• Temenos

In the article the issue of sacrality is explored from the points of view of cultural anthropology and cognitive science of religion. Culture-specific contents of meaning bestowed on the notion of "sacred" are not approached as religious representations in which some theologically defined agent, metaphysical entity or otherworldly level of existence is believed to manifest itself to human beings. Instead, various attributions of sacrality are explored as representations of the general mental… Expand

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