--- 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.' altloc: - http://www.aber.ac.uk/cla/archive/evola.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Evola given: Vito honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2005-08 date_type: published datestamp: 2006-04-29 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/48/63 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Hogan given: Patrick Colm honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Meyer-Dinkgräfe given: Daniel honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4863 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4863/1/Cognitive_Semiotics_and_On%2DLine_Reading_of_Religious_Texts.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'literary universals, religious literature, cognitive linguistics, metaphor, semiotics, limbic system, attention, memory, higher level thinking, consciousness, empathy, rituals, anthropomorphism, reading, authority, brain imaging' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:24 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ISSN 1470-5648 number: N. 2 pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: 'Journal of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts' publisher: 'University of Wales - Aberystwyth' refereed: TRUE referencetext: "Aggleton, J.P. and Mishkin, M. 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