%A Vito Evola
%O ISSN 1470-5648
%J Journal of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
%T Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts
%X 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.
%N N. 2
%K literary universals, religious literature, cognitive linguistics, metaphor, semiotics, limbic system, attention, memory, higher level thinking, consciousness, empathy, rituals, anthropomorphism, reading, authority, brain imaging
%E Patrick Colm Hogan
%E Daniel Meyer-Dinkgr?fe
%V Vol. 6
%D 2005
%I University of Wales - Aberystwyth
%L cogprints4863

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