"4863","Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts","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.","http://cogprints.org/4863/","Evola, Vito","Hogan, Patrick Colm and Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel"," Evola, Vito (2005) Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] ","","2005-08"