TY  - GEN
N1  - ISSN 1470-5648
ID  - cogprints4863
UR  - http://cogprints.org/4863/
A1  - Evola, Vito
Y1  - 2005/08//
N2  - 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.
PB  - University of Wales - Aberystwyth
KW  - literary universals
KW  -  religious literature
KW  -  cognitive linguistics
KW  -  metaphor
KW  -  semiotics
KW  -  limbic system
KW  -  attention
KW  -  memory
KW  -  higher level thinking
KW  -  consciousness
KW  -  empathy
KW  -  rituals
KW  -  anthropomorphism
KW  -  reading
KW  -  authority
KW  -  brain imaging
TI  - Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts
AV  - public
ER  -

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