title: Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts
creator: Evola, Vito
subject: Semantics
description: 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.
publisher: University of Wales - Aberystwyth
contributor: Hogan, Patrick Colm
contributor: Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel
date: 2005-08
type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4863/1/Cognitive_Semiotics_and_On-Line_Reading_of_Religious_Texts.pdf
identifier:   Evola, Vito  (2005) Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4863/