@misc{cogprints4863,
          volume = {Vol. 6},
          number = {N. 2},
           month = {August},
          author = {Vito Evola},
            note = {ISSN 1470-5648},
          editor = {Patrick Colm Hogan and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgr{\"a}fe},
           title = {Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts},
       publisher = {University of Wales - Aberystwyth},
            year = {2005},
         journal = {Journal of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts},
        keywords = {literary universals, religious literature, cognitive linguistics, metaphor, semiotics, limbic system, attention, memory, higher level thinking, consciousness, empathy, rituals, anthropomorphism, reading, authority, brain imaging},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/4863/},
        abstract = {In this essay a hermeneutic model of the higher level understanding during on-line ritual reading by devotees of their respective sacred literatures is proposed, using the instruments provided by cognitive sciences. The way a devotee reads a sacred text differs from the way he or she would read a common piece of literature or how a lay person might read the same sacred text.  After providing an overview of metaphor, anthropomorphism, and the ?religious brain?, it is suggested how devotee-readers might make sense of a religious text and why it should be so important for their own personal everyday life. Universals are implicated in this genre of literature and the way it is interpreted.}
}

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