Religious Symbols and their Functions
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
1979
Kuvaus
HARALDS BIEZAIS
Die Hauptprobleme der religiösen Symbolik VII
RAGNAR HOLTE
Gottessymbol and soziale Struktur
TRYGGVE ME TTINGER
The veto on images and the aniconic God in Ancient Israel
JAN HJÄRPE
The symbol of the centre and its religious function in Islam
LENNART RYDÉN
The role of the icon in Byzantine piety
JAN BERGMAN
Nut — Himmelsgöttin — Baumgöttin — Lebensgeberin
ÅKE HULTKRANTZ
The traditional symbolism of the Sun Dance Lodge among the Wind
River Shoshoni
CARL HALLENCREUTZ
"Christ is the Mountain"
HELMER RINGGREN
The symbolism of Mesopotamian cult images
ANDERS HULTGÅRD
Man as symbol of God
SVEN LINNÉR
Literary symbols and religious belief
RALF NORRMAN
On the semiotic function of cucurbits
ASKO PARPOLA
On the symbol concept of the Vedic ritualists
JUHA PENTIKÄINEN
The symbolism of liminality
SVEIN BJERKE
Symbolism and magical acts
Die Hauptprobleme der religiösen Symbolik VII
RAGNAR HOLTE
Gottessymbol and soziale Struktur
TRYGGVE ME TTINGER
The veto on images and the aniconic God in Ancient Israel
JAN HJÄRPE
The symbol of the centre and its religious function in Islam
LENNART RYDÉN
The role of the icon in Byzantine piety
JAN BERGMAN
Nut — Himmelsgöttin — Baumgöttin — Lebensgeberin
ÅKE HULTKRANTZ
The traditional symbolism of the Sun Dance Lodge among the Wind
River Shoshoni
CARL HALLENCREUTZ
"Christ is the Mountain"
HELMER RINGGREN
The symbolism of Mesopotamian cult images
ANDERS HULTGÅRD
Man as symbol of God
SVEN LINNÉR
Literary symbols and religious belief
RALF NORRMAN
On the semiotic function of cucurbits
ASKO PARPOLA
On the symbol concept of the Vedic ritualists
JUHA PENTIKÄINEN
The symbolism of liminality
SVEIN BJERKE
Symbolism and magical acts
Tiivistelmä
Religious symbols play a significant role in the lives of individual human beings as well as in the lives of religious groups. Within the research on religion, symbols have traditionally been an object of interest for scholars approaching the theme from a phenomenological point of view. As a result of the influential studies on religious symbols presented by Sigmund Freud and Carl-Gustav Jung, however, studies on the psychological aspects of symbolism in a religious context started gaining ground in the second half of the 20th century.
This volume, based on a conference on the theme arranged in 1978, reflects the diversification of the research on religious symbols that was emerging at the time. Instead of offering a definitive description of the functions of religious symbols, the volume bears witness to the changing and fluid circumstances in which human beings come in contact with religious symbols and rely on them in the quest for an integrated and meaningful reality.
The volume is based on papers read at the Symposium on Religious Symbols and their Functions held at Åbo on the 28th-30th of August 1978. Ed. by Haralds Biezais. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1979.
This volume, based on a conference on the theme arranged in 1978, reflects the diversification of the research on religious symbols that was emerging at the time. Instead of offering a definitive description of the functions of religious symbols, the volume bears witness to the changing and fluid circumstances in which human beings come in contact with religious symbols and rely on them in the quest for an integrated and meaningful reality.
The volume is based on papers read at the Symposium on Religious Symbols and their Functions held at Åbo on the 28th-30th of August 1978. Ed. by Haralds Biezais. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1979.